Chapter 17 and 18
Sexually Explicit Material
A material such a photographs, videos, films, magazines, and books whose primary themes or topics involve sexuality that may cause sexual arousal.
Obscenity
A term that generally implies a personal or society judgment that something is offencive
Sexual Assault
A term used by the criminal justice system to describe forced sexual contact that does not necessarily include penile-vaginal intercourse and so doesn't meet the legal definition of rape.
Peer Delinquent Subculture
An antisocial street transvestite subculture
Pornography
represents sexually explicit material that may be evaluated negatively and might include anything that depicts sexuality and causes sexual arousal in a viewer.
Extrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse
sexual abuse by acquaintances and strangers
Effects of Rape
substance abuse, self-harm, Stockholm syndrome, sleep disorders, depression, and PTSD
Age of consent
the age at which a person is legally deemed capable of giving informed consent
Percentage of Sexual Harassment in College
women-62% men-61% LGBT-73% hetero-61%
Percentage of Street Harassment
women-65% men-25% (86%w 79%m more than once)
Stalking Percentages
women: 15.2% (88.3% men doing stalking) men: 7.5% (48% men doing stalking)
Sexual Coercion
(Broader term than rape) includes arguing, pleading, and cajoling, as well as force and the threat of force.
Percentage of SEM usage
92% men and 50% women
Motivations for rape
-anger rape -power rape -sadistic rape
Examples of heterosexism
-ignoring the existence LGBT people -segregating LGBT people from heterosexual people -subsuming LGBT people into a larger category
Themes of Sexually Explicit Videos
-objectification of women -power -violence
Forms of Prostitution
-streetwalkers -brothels -masseuses -call girls
Examples of Sexual Harassment
-verbally harassing or abusing someone -Exerting subtle pressure for sexual activity -Making remarks about a person's clothing, body, sex activ. -leering or ogling a person's body -unwelcome touching, patting or pinching -brushing against a person's body
Percentage of Sexual Harassment at work
1 in 6 (1 in 5 women in military)
Gay Sexual Assault Percentage
30% men 48% women
Child Sexual Abuse
Any sexual-related activity between an adult and a child.
EEOC Definition of Sexual Harassment
Any unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when it: -explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's workplace -unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance -creates an intimifating, hostile, or offensive work enviornment
Statutory Rape
Consensual sexual contact with a person younger than a states age of consent.
Rape
Defined as penile-vaginal penetration performed against a women's will through the use of threat of force.
Erotica
Describes sexually explicit material that can be evaluated positively
Flirting
Is an ambiguous, goal-oriented behavior with potential sexual or romantic overtones.
Censorship
Occurs when the government, private groups, or individuals impose their moral or political values on others by suppressing words, ideas, or images they deem offensive.
Postrefusal Sexual Persistence
Pursuit of sexual contact with a person after he or she has refused an initial advance
Stalking
Repeatedly following, harassing, or threatening an individual (a form of harassment that is not inharently sexual)
Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse (incest)
Sexual abuse by biologically related people
Street Harassment
Sexual harassment in public places (unwanted interactions in public places between strangers that are motivated by a person's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, or gender expression and make the harassed feel annoyed, angry, humiliated or scared"
Femme Porn
Sexually explicit material catering to women and heterosexual couples.
Anti-Gay Prejudice
a strong dislike, fear, or hatred of LGBT people because of their sexual orientation.
Rape Trauma Syndrome
The emotional changes that are undergone as a result of rape (i.e. depression, anxiety, restlessness, and guilt)
Prostitution
The exchange of sexual behaviors such as intercourse, fellatio, and intercourse, discipline and bondage and obscene insults for money.
Date Rape
The most common type: sexual intercourse with a dating partner that occurs against the victim's will, with force or the threat of force.
Sexual Harassment
Two types of behaviors: -the abuse fo power -the creation of a hostile eniornment
Solicitation
a work, gesture, or action that implies an offer of sex for sale
Sodomy
any sexual behavior between members of the other or the same sex that cannot result in procreation.
Affirmative Consent
consent that is affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.
Sexual Violence
includes rape, being made to penetrate a perpetrator, sexual coercion, unwanted sexual contact, and non-contact unwanted sexual experiences.
Heterosexual Bias (heterosexism)
involves the tendency to the world in heterosexual terms and to ignore or devalue homosexuality.