sexuality and identity

• Feminism


  Women are portrayed as sexual objects for men to fantasize about.
• Weeks


  Saying that you are gay makes a statement about belonging and your relationship to dominant sexual codes. Not many would voice that they are heterosexual in relation to their identity. Sexual identity is complex – some people have same sex but do not identify as gay and the other way around.
• Gay marriage only became legal in 2014
• Reiss

  "Rent boys” despise homosexual men even though they have sex with them as a way to neutralise their behaviour
• Mcintosh

  • When a man accepts the homosexuality label, they fulfill stereotypical gay culture such as a higher voice and attention to appearance.
• Plummer

  • homosexual career, where a male who accepts the label of homosexual will seek out others and join a subculture where stereotypical homosexual characteristics become the norm.
  • Casual homosexuality – school boy crush
  • Situated activities is the idea that prisoners live without women so homosexuality is a substitute to heterosexual behaviour
• Rich

  Women's sexuality is oppressed by men in patriarchal society, using the term comp het to describe how women are socialised into a heterosexual role ensuring their availability to men