Chapter 5: How Does Gender Matter for Who We Want to Desire?1. Sex: any act that is defined as sexual2. Sexual identity: the particular category into which people place themselves based on the current, Anglo-European division of the world into heterosexuals, homosexuals, & bisexuals3. Sexual desire: a combination of objective physical responses & subjective psychological or emotional responses to some internal or external stimulus4. Comfort women: enslaved Asian women of the Japanese Imperial Army in WWII; included 200,000 women forced into sexual slavery5. Compulsive heterosexuality: describes the way in which heterosexuality becomes institutionalized into the practices of daily life & therefore enforced as a way of regulating our behaviors & distributing power & privilege6. Sexual subjects: having a sense of power & agency in your own body that allows one to act in their bodies rather than being acted upon7. Romance tourism: describes the way in which many women as sex tourists are “looking more to be swept away by men that to assert their strong control over their paid male counterparts”8. Heteronormativity: the way in which heterosexuality is viewed as the normal, natural way of being9. Ideal love: “submissions to & adoration of an idealized other whom one would like to be like & from whom one wants confirmation & recognition”10. Sexual object: to see oneself as the passive recipient of sexual behavior & sexual desire, or to bethe one who is sexually acted upon & sexually desired, rather than the one doing the sexual acting & sexual desiring11. Double standard: a cultural belief in Anglo-European society that the exact same behaviors or feelings are OK for one gender (men) but not the other (women)12. Sexual scripts: the learned guidelines for sexual expression that provide individuals with a sense of appropriate sexual behaviors & sexual desired for their particular culture13. Discourse: “the means by which institutions wield their power through a process of definition & exclusion”; [in sexuality] define what is & is not acceptable in relation to sexual behavior, as well as what is & is not defined as sexual behavior14. Sexology: the study of sex 15. Studying up: refers to the need to study those at the top of any particular power structure16. One-sex model: comes from the ancient Greeks & views of women, not as a completely differenttype of creature, but as an inferior version of men17. Two-sex model: women & men are believed to be completely different types of people, & sex is viewed as a bounded category (you’re either m or f, & there’s nothing in between)18. Berdache: from the French for male prostitute: “of two spirits”19. Ethnocentrism: seeing one’s own culture as better, more correct, or right relative to another culture20. Sexual inversion: attributed homosexuality to an inborn inversion of gender traits21. Homosexual role: the set of expectations we have for how people who occupy the social status of homosexual should behave22. “Benny boys”: male sex workers solicited by male Marines during shore leave23. Homosexual career: presumes some basic trajectory or series of life events that homosexual individuals share in common24. Homosexual identity: to say that some individuals consider their particular sexual identity to be an important part of their own self-concept25. Boston marriages: passionate attachments between women in the 18th & 19th centuries26. Homosocial: refers merely to social relationships between those of the same sex27. Privilege: is an (not necessarily) earned right that is attached to a social status28. Hetero-privilege: set of unearned rights that are given to heterosexuals in many societies29. Hegemonic curriculum: practices in schools, or other institutions, that both legitimize the dominant culture & marginalize or reject other cultures & forms of knowledge30. Hetero-romantic norms: prescribe specific behavioral norms for m & f that are important to proving their masculinity or feminity, as well as gaining acceptance in the peer culture of high school31. Egalitarian: one that is embedded in a belief in equality among all