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| Judith Butler's theoretical perspective on identity politics & the realization of identity, often sex role, arguing that an individual constructs an identity & acts it out in accordance to certain social norms. |
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| refering to the culture that surrounds the phsyical actions, as well as the cultural norms and contradictions, of a people. |
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| a description of a culture as it was prior to contact. |
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| a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex. |
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A person's sexual identity in relation to the gender to which they are attracted; the fact of being heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual.
Note: there are flaws in both the term, and the definition. |
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| Reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect. A reflexive relationship is bidirectional; with both the cause and the effect affecting one another in a situation that renders both functions causes and effects |
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| Female transvestite in Japan. Not usually considered a lesbian, but can be. No usually a transexual, but live within a male persona. Women who date onabe would still consider themselves to be straight. |
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| Gay, lesbian, or other wise same-sex sexual interaction. The degree of which can vary, but usually considering anal in the form of male gay sex, and oral in the case of femal gay sex. |
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| What is erotic is subjective. A culture may consider something erotic, and either ban it or promote it, while another may not find anything erotic about it at all. |
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- A strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen
- Strong sexual feeling or appetite
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| a view that social and cultural reality, as well as social science itself, is a human construction. |
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- A homosexual sex act in which two male partners consume eachother's semen in some way.
- Ritualized exhcnage of semen practiced by the Sambian males as a right of passage.
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| a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex. |
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| that postmodernism tries to "deconstruct" modernity and promote obscurantism in ways that are similar toreactionary movements of the past. |
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- The fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
- Defining yourself.
- The idea of a person or peoples being defined, or defining themselves, by a specific way of life and/or symbol.
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