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School: Arts & Cultures
Section: Media, Culture & Heritage

Module Handbook
MCH 2071
Sex, Sexuality and Desire
Semester 1, 2022-2023
20 credits

The module involves a weekly two-hour lecture and a one-hour seminar on campus on a weekly basis. Check your personal timetable for times and venues, and see page 6 for details.

Module Leader: Dr Chris Haywood, Armstrong Building 2.70, chris.haywood@ncl.ac.uk

Consultation & Feedback Hours: 12.00pm-1.00pm Wednesday / 9.00am –11.00amFriday (during teaching weeks only)

Contents
Contact Information 2
Module Team 3
Summary 3
Aims 3
Outline of Syllabus 4
Learning Outcomes 4
Intended Knowledge Outcomes 4
Intended Skill Outcomes 5
Canvas 5
Teaching and Learning Activities 5
Expected Workload 5
Schedule 6
Requirements 24
Attendance 25
Availability 25
Assessment 25
Assessment 1: Portfolio (40% of the mark for the module) 25
Assessment 2 (60% of the mark for the module) 25
Presentation of Assessments 26
Deadlines and Return of Marks 26
Submission Procedure 26
Extensions and Other Adjustments 27
Late Submission and Non-Submission 27
Assignment Penalties 28
Resit Activity 28
Assessment Irregularity Information 28
Feedback 29
Student Voice 29
How to Provide Feedback 29
Criteria of Assessment for Essays (and other scholarly work) 31

Contact Information

For administrative queries please contact the School of Arts & Cultures Office (on the third floor of the Armstrong Building; opening Times: Mon-Fri 9.00am-4.00pm, though this may be subject to change due to Covid-19 restrictions) or email ugmch@newcastle.ac.uk to contact Sharon Harrison.

To notify the School of absences from any scheduled teaching, please follow the Absence Request procedure (see below, under ‘Requirements’).

Module Team

Module leader: Dr Chris Haywood, Armstrong Building 2.70, chris.haywood@ncl.ac.uk
Consultation & Feedback Hours: 12.00pm-1.00pm Wednesday / 9.00am-10.00am / 11.00am-12.00pm Friday (during teaching weeks only). Request appointments outside these times by email.

Meetings with members of the module team should normally take place during Consultation & Feedback hours or by appointment. Response times for email correspondence may be as long as 5 working days.

Summary

Aims
This module aims to develop students’ knowledge and interest in a wide range of issues and topics that surround sex, sexuality and desire. Fundamentally, the module aims to encourage students to apply a critical literacy to explore the knowledge, meanings and understandings in this area.

The module is likely to include a number of themes but is not limited to: erotic retail, BDSM, advertising, sex tourism, sex addiction, sex and technology, sex crime, recreational sex, fetishes, history of sex, the psychology of sex.

Although this module is located within media and cultural studies, it draws upon a wide range of perspectives and disciplines to offer students the opportunity to explore the impact of cultural contexts on some of the more intimate and private aspects of our lives. More specifically, the module considers the ways that society, culture and individuals transform what we know, understand and experience as sex, sexuality and desire. At the core of the module is a question of whether the changes around sex, sexuality and desire are creating new sexual possibilities or are they simply reinforcing existing inequalities and differences that have traditionally shaped sex, sexuality and desire.

Outline of Syllabus
This module will normally explore, but may not be limited to the following themes: introduction to sex, sexuality and desire, sexual psychology, sex research, sexuality and technology, media representations of sexual deviance, global sex tourism, contemporary sexual cultures

This module deals with issues around sex, sexuality and desire. Some of this is interesting, exciting, frustrating and engaging. Some of the material you come across might by quite challenging. By default the lecture may use explicit images, representations and moving image. I will throughout the lecture endeavour to provide content warnings. If there is a lecture that you find particularly disturbing you are under no obligation to attend and you do not have to alert me prior to this. The links below might be helpful for students who do experience difficulties.

https://www.mind.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/We provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.

https://napac.org.uk/other-support/ NAPAC provides the only free national support service for adult survivors of all types of childhood abuse. We offer specialist, confidential support to all adult survivors of any type of abuse, operated by experienced staff and trained volunteers.

safeline.org.uk – Safeline is an independent and non-discriminatory charity that provides specialist, tailored support for anyone affected by sexual abuse and rape and works to prevent CSE with children and young people at risk.

https://www.swarmcollective.org/who-we-are SWARM is a sex worker led collective based in the U.K. The project was founded in 2009 (under our former name Sex Worker Open University) to advocate for the rights of everyone who sells sexual services. Our goal is to build a diverse and inclusive community of sex workers who work together to improve our working conditions and resist violence.

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/wellbeing/ We work to support students to maximize their academic potential and gain the most from their time here at Newcastle. We also offer free 24/7 support when you need it.
Learning Outcomes

Intended Knowledge Outcomes
Students successfully completing the module will know and understand:
1. The ways in which sex, sexuality and desire is made sense of and understood in contemporary society and culture.
2. The diversity of sexual worlds in a range of different social, cultural and economic settings.
3. The complex emotional and physical experiences that underpin sexual selves and identities.
4. The connections between what we understood as ‘the sexual’ and gender relations.
5. The theoretical and conceptual tools that are available to make sense of this field of study.
6. Issues concerning the normalization, discrimination and regulation of sex, sexuality and desire.
7. The ethical issues involved when conducting theoretical and practical inquiry in this area.

Intended Skill Outcomes
Students successfully completing the module will:
I. Engage critically with major thinkers, researchers, debates and issues within the area of sex, sexuality and desire.
II. Identify how forms of sex, sexuality and desire have developed historically, appreciating the processes through which they have come into being with reference to social, cultural and technological change.
III. Develop substantive and detailed knowledge and understanding in one or more designated areas of the field.
IV. The ability to carry out various forms of research for essays involving sustained independent enquiry into the area of sex, sexuality and desire.
V. Draw out the strengths of, and understand the limits of, quantitative and /or qualitative research methods used in researching the field.
VI. Recognition of the ethical issues involved in sex research.

Canvas

This module is supported by a site (known as a ‘course’) in the University’s Virtual Learning Environment, Canvas (accessible via the Student Essentials area of the Student Homepage or directly at canvas.ncl.ac.uk).

Teaching and Learning Activities

Expected Workload
The University expects each student to spend roughly 200 hours completing a 20-credit module. This consists of:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities

The University expects each student to spend roughly 200 hours completing a 20-credit module. This consists of:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities

One 2-hour on campus lecture per week

Nine 1-hour seminar every week:
Led by the module leader, taking place in groups of roughly 20-25 students. Your personal timetable should show which one of these groups you have been assigned to.

Structured Guided Learning (Non-Synchronous – N.S.)

Documentaries:
These have been chosen to support students with their initial engagement with various areas. These are helpful to watch

Roughly 5 hours across the module are spent engaging with online materials, including watching recorded lectures, all accessed via the module’s Canvas course.

Guided Independent Study

Roughly 6 hours completing viewing of documentaries, as detailed in the ‘Schedule’ below.

Roughly 5 hours online resources on Canvas.

Roughly 79 hours working on the Portfolio and the essay (see ‘Assessment’ below).

Roughly 54 hours of independent study, including revising notes and exploring further reading/viewing etc., from the ‘Further Reading’ list below and as suggested during the above teaching activities.

Schedule

Week 4: Week Commencing 26th September 2022

Monday 26th September
10.00am – 12.00pm Lecture Introduction – Sexual Confusions: Unsatisfying Terms and Definitions HDB.G.13

When I say sex, sexuality and desire, what do you think of The first lecture on this module brings into sharper focus what these terms mean. At a common sense level, it seems to be quite obvious what these terms mean. However, the work package aims to unpack these terms and, in doing so, views these terms as part of a broader set of inclusions and exclusions. These terms permeate our feelings, thoughts and practices and what appears as something extremely intimate and personal is part of a structuring of how we see sexual worlds. In order to disrupt common sense views, the learning materials explore these terms.

This lecture asks students to begin to see the sexual in a critically reflexive manner by drawing on a number of research projects and case studies that specifically focus on the area of orgasms.

Supporting Documentary
Super Orgasms – Channel 4 – Free access via On Demand

Seminars
In this seminar, we will be covering some of the key aspects of the modules, answering any questions that you may have and identifying what you want me to teach you in Timetable Week 35. We will also cover the first part of the Portfolio.

Monday 26th September 2.00pm – 3.00pm Seminar HDB.LG.04:
Friday 30th September
11.00am – 12.00pm Seminar ARMB 3.38
Friday 30th September
12.00pm – 1.00pm Seminar ARMB 3.38

Assessment Two

2000 Word Essay

Critically discuss the claim that there is an ‘Orgasm Gap’ in contemporary society.
Or,
Critically explore the claims that all orgasms are the same but different.

Key Readings
Masters, W. H., & Johnson, V. E. (1966). Human sexual response (Access on Canvas). [Don’t try to read it all. Just dip in and out of it to get a sense of how sex is being discussed]

Castleman, M. (2011) All orgasms are the same, but different.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/all-about-sex/201103/all-orgasms-are-the-same-different

Mahar, E. A., Mintz, L. B., & Akers, B. M. (2020). Orgasm equality: Scientific findings and societal implications. Current Sexual Health Reports, 12(1), 24-32.

Potts, A. (2000) Coming, Coming, Gone: A Feminist Deconstruction of Heterosexual Orgasm Sexualities February 3: 55-76,

Frith, H. (2015). Orgasmic bodies: The orgasm in contemporary western culture. Springer.

Associated Readings
Beecham, N., & Unger, C. (2019). Designing the Female Orgasm: Situating the Sexual Entrepreneur in the Online Sex-Education Platform OMGYes. Design Issues, 35(4), 42-51.

Levin, R. J. (2008). Critically revisiting aspects of the human sexual response cycle of Masters and Johnson: Correcting errors and suggesting modifications. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 23(4), 393-399.

Depression, S. B. (2018). Female Ejaculation: What’s Known and Unknown Ten to 50 per cent of women produce fluid on orgasm. Psychology Today.

Gerhard, J. (2000) Revisiting ‘The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm’: the female orgasm in American sexual thought and second wave feminism, Feminist Studies; 26 (2) p.449-76

Hara, R., Nagai, A., Nakatsuka, T., Ohira, S., Fujii, T., & Miyaji, Y. (2018). Male squirting: Analysis of one case using color Doppler ultrasonography. IJU Case Reports, 1(1), 19-21.

Levin, R. J. (2018). Male Sexual Arousal and Orgasms—New Enigmas of Their Activation. Current Sexual Health Reports, 10(3), 76-78.

Pastor, Z., & Chmel, R. (2018). Differential diagnostics of female “sexual” fluids: a narrative review. International urogynecology journal, 1-9.

Séguin, L. J., Rodrigue, C., & Lavigne, J. (2018). Consuming Ecstasy: Representations of Male and Female Orgasm in Mainstream Pornography. The Journal of Sex Research, 55(3), 348-356.

Whipple, B. (2015) Female Ejaculation, G Spot, A Spot, and Should We Be Looking for Spots Current Sexual Health Reports, 7, 2, 59-62.

Johnson, M. (2010). “Just getting off”: The inseparability of ejaculation and hegemonic masculinity, Journal
of Men’s Studies, 18(3), 238-248.

Mah, K. and Binik, Y. M. (2002) Do all orgasms feel alike Evaluating a two‐dimensional model of the orgasm experience across gender and sexual context, The Journal of Sex Research, 39, 2

Week 5: Week Commencing 3rd October 2022

Monday 3rd October
10.00am – 12.00pm Lecture “Let’s talk about sex”: Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Desire HDB.G.13

Michel Foucault makes clear in his work that sex and sexuality are as intimately tied to language and discourse as they are to the body and erotic desire. However, perhaps one of the first to notice how everyday life is saturated by sexual stories and the basis for much discussion is psychology. Psychology is not a singular discipline but covers a wide range of approaches. This session intends to map out the various psychological approaches. The lecture aims to provide basic coverage of conditioning, cognitive and psychoanalytical approaches to sexual behaviour. Some weird and wonderful examples of sexual behaviour will be discussed. However, importantly, the session ensures that ‘weird’ and ‘wonderful’ are often discursive mechanisms of control and regulation for that which we deem ‘normal’. Perhaps on the basis of the historical development of sexual and erotic identities, heterosexual monogamy and family life might appear as the weirdest of them all!

Supporting Documentary
My 10,000 Lovers – YouTube – Free access via https://www.youtube.com/watch v=LYXYj4aJ760

Seminars

Monday 3rd October 2.00pm – 3.00pm Seminar HDB.LG.04:
Friday 7th October
11.00am – 12.00pm Seminar ARMB 3.38
Friday 7th October
12.00pm – 1.00pm Seminar ARMB 3.38

Assessment Two

2000 Word Essay

Critically evaluate psychological theories that explain the nature of sexual desire.
Or,
Choose a paraphilia. Critically evaluate the various approaches that explain this behaviour

Key Readings
Marquis, C. (2004) ‘Apotemnophilia – a means to an end ’ Injury Extra, 35: 12 (101 -103).

Simon, W. and Gagnon, J. H. (2003) Sexual Scripts: Origins, Influences and Changes, Qualitative Sociology, 26, 4, 1573 – 7837.

Freud, S. (1905) Three Essays on the theory of sexuality. Available on Canvas. [Don’t try to read it all. Just dip in and out of it to get a sense of how sex is being discussed]

Associated Readings
Parker, C. H., Keefe, E. R., Herzog, N. M., O’connell, J. F., & Hawkes, K. (2016). The pyrophilic primate hypothesis. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 25(2), 54-63.

Miles, L.A., Lyle Cooper, R. Nugent, W.R. and Ellis, R.A (2016) Sexual addiction: A literature review of treatment interventions, Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment , Vol. 26, Iss. 1.

Kerr, K.J., Beech, A. R. and Murphy, D. (2013) Sexual homicide: Definition, motivation and comparison with other forms of sexual offending, 18, 1, 1-10

Horley, J. (2001) Frotteurism: A term in search of an underlying disorder , Journal of Sexual Aggression: An international, interdisciplinary forum for research, theory and practice, Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 51 – 55.

Reiers , O; Skeid, S (2006) The ICD Diagnoses of Fetishism and Sadomasochism, Journal of Homosexuality, Volume 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 243 – 262.

Week 6: Week Commencing 10th October 2022

Monday 10th October
10.00am – 12.00pm Lecture Researching Sex HDB.G.13

This lecture looks closely at the methods that have been used to research sex. Looking at diaries, ethnographies, observations and surveys, the lecture considers the wide range of techniques that have been used to get at the sexual – to locate, identify and explain it. It outlines the development of sexual research over the 20th century, covering some of the areas such as behaviour, physiology, interviews and observations. A key theme of this lecture is to ask students whether, in the process of trying to establish the nature of the sexual, we are simultaneously in the process of shaping and re-shaping it. In other words, do we only find what we are looking for If that is the case, how can sex research be completely unbiased

Seminars
In this seminar, we will be exploring the ways that you would ask qualitative questions. Qualitative questions are the second element of the Portfolio and this seminar will help you design and develop questions.

Monday 10th October 2.00pm – 3.00pm Seminar HDB.LG.04:
Friday 14th October
11.00am – 12.00pm Seminar ARMB 3.38
Friday 14th October
12.00pm – 1.00pm Seminar ARMB 3.38

Assessment Two

2000 Word Essay

Critically discuss the claim that value-free sex research is possible.

Key Reading
Przybylo, E. (2013). Producing facts: Empirical asexuality and the scientific study of sex. Feminism & Psychology, 23(2), 224-242.

Waling, A. (2018). I can’t/can I touch him Erotic subjectivity, sexual attraction, and research in the field. Qualitative Inquiry, 24(9), 720-727.

Bolton R. (1995). ‘Tricks, friends and lovers, erotic encounters in the field’, in D. Kulick and M Wilson (eds.). Taboo, Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork. London: Routledge. (Access on Canvas)

Associated Reading
Humphreys, L. (1970) Tearoom Trade Impersonal sex in public places, Transaction, 7, 3, 10-25.

Kinsey, A.C., Pomeroy, W.B and Martin, C.E. (1952) Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. (Access on Canvas)

Kinsey, A.C., Pomeroy, W.B and Martin, C.E. (1958) Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. (Access on Canvas)

Hite, S. (1989) The Hite Report: on female sexuality. London: Pandora.

Bell, K. (2014). Resisting commensurability: Against informed consent as an anthropological virtue. American Anthropologist, 116(3), 511-522.
Poole, H., Giles, D.C. and Moore, K. (2004) ‘Researching sexuality and sexual issues: implications for the researcher ’, Sexual and Relationship Therapy 19 (1): 79-88.

Zago, L.F. and Holmes, D. (2014) The ethical tightrope: politics of intimacy and consensual method in sexuality research, Nursing Inquiry, 22, 2, 147–156.

Week 7: Week Commencing 17th October 2022

Monday 17th October
10.00am – 12.00pm Lecture Contemporary Sexual Sub-Cultures:
Exploring the Relationship between Gender, Sexuality and Desire HDB.G.13

This session looks more closely at the range of contemporary sexual sub-cultures. One of the key themes within the discussion of sex, sexuality and desire is the relationships between gender and sexuality. Existing studies in the field suggest that sexuality and gender are mutually reinforcing. For example, masculine sexuality is about competence, competition and (hetero) sexual success. In contrast, women’s sexuality has been explained through emotional engagement, depth and care. This lecture explores the limits of these approaches by examining the relationship between gender and sexuality in different sexual subcultures. We explore areas such as swinging, sex clubs and dogging as examples of the non-deterministic way in which gender and sexuality may be captured. Drawing upon men’s accounts of having sex with couples in car parks, the lecture examines the move from gendered desire to moments of pleasure.

Supporting Documentary
To access this documentary, you will need to register with Channel 4’s My4
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/swingers/on-demand/70674-001 banner=sign-in

Seminars

Monday 17th October 2.00pm – 3.00pm Seminar HDB.LG.04:
Friday 21st October
11.00am – 12.00pm Seminar ARMB 3.38
Friday 21st October
12.00pm – 1.00pm Seminar ARMB 3.38

Assessment Two

2000 Word Essay

Choose a contemporary sub-culture. Using this as a case study explore the different ways that identities are experienced and practiced.

Key Readings
Haywood, C. (2017). ‘Leaving masculinity at the car door’: Dogging, de-subjectification and the pursuit of pleasure. Sexualities,

Kimberly, C. (2016) Permission To Cheat: Ethnography of a Swingers’ Convention, Sexuality and Culture, 20, 1, 56-68

Turley, E.L. (2016) Like nothing I’ve ever felt before’: understanding consensual BDSM as embodied experience, Psychology and Sexuality,

Associated Readings
Attwood, F. (2015) The uncanny valley: Transformations of the body and debates about sexualization International Journal of Cultural Studies, 18: 269-280.

Gill, R. (2012) Media, Empowerment and the ‘Sexualization of Culture’ Debates, Sex Roles, 66, 11, 736-745.

Cover, R. (2015) Visual Hetero-masculinities Online: Beyond Binaries and Sexual Normativities in Camera Chat Forums Men and Masculinities.

Fay, D., Haddadi, H., Seto, M.C., Wang, H. and Kling, C. (2016) An Exploration of Fetish Social Networks and Communities, Advances in Network Science, 9564, 195-204.

Hofer, K.P. (2014) Pornographic domesticity: amateur couple porn, straight subjectivities, and sexual labour, Porn Studies, 1, 4, 334-345.

Jackson, S. and Scott, S. (2010) Theorizing Sexuality. Berks: OUP.

McNair, B. (2002) Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratization of Desire. London: Routledge.

Olesky, E.H. (2009) Intimate citizenships: gender, sexualities, politics. London: Routledge.

Week 8: Week Commencing 24th October 2022

Monday 24th October
10.00am – 12.00pm Lecture Advertising Desire
HDB.G.13

Sex and sexualities have always been tied to markets, economies, production and exchange. But in recent times, late-capitalist economies have had ambivalent and contradictory relations to sexualities. On the one hand, sexualities are exploited perhaps more than ever before. The use of sexual stereotypes have proliferated and there is much evidence to suggest that advertising is reinforcing inequalities. On the other hand, some sexualities are silent, hidden and not spoken. This lecture tries to understand some of the arguments which surround the discussion and theorization of sexuality in the spaces of advertising and consumer cultures.

Seminars
The third element of the Portfolio is the design of an advert or poster connected with your selected areas of sex, sexuality and desire. In this seminar, we are going to explore the ways in which we could use advertising to get a message across.

Monday 24th October 2.00pm – 3.00pm Seminar HDB.LG.04:
Friday 28th October
11.00am – 12.00pm Seminar ARMB 3.38
Friday 28th October
12.00pm – 1.00pm Seminar ARMB 3.38

Assessment Two

2000 Word Essay

Is advertising reproducing traditional sexual norms and values or is it suggesting new ones

Key Readings

Reichert, T. (2007) Does Sex in Advertising Work : A Review of Scholarly Research Informed by Professional Opinion, Advertising & Society Review, 8, 2. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/216983

Amy-Chinn, D. (2006). This is just for me (n) How the regulation of post-feminist lingerie advertising perpetuates woman as object. Journal of consumer culture, 6(2), 155-175.

Gill, R. (2009) Beyond the `Sexualization of Culture’ Thesis: An Intersectional Analysis of `Sixpacks’,`Midriffs’ and `Hot Lesbians’ in Advertising, Sexualities, 12: 137-160.

Annati, A. & Ramsey, L.R. (2021) Lesbian Perceptions of Stereotypical and Sexualized Media Portrayals. Sexuality & culture. 26 (1), 312–338.

Associated Readings

Abelove, et al., The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (London: Routledge) – you will find a section devoted to sexuality and the economy.

Attwood, F. (2009) Mainstreaming Sex. I B Tauris & Co Ltd

Clarkson, J. (2005) Contesting Masculinity’s Makeover: Queer Eye, Consumer Masculinity, and “Straight-Acting” Gays Journal of Communication Inquiry, 29: 235-255

Dahl, D. W., Sengupta, J. and Vohs, K.D (2009) Sex in Advertising: Gender Differences and the Role of Relationship Commitment, Journal of Consumer Research Vol. 36, No. 2 (August 2009), pp. 215-231

Fields, J. (2007) An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality. University of California Press
Hennessy, Rosemary: Profit and Pleasure (London and New York: Routledge, 2000).

Graff, K.A., Murnen, S.K. and Krause, A.K. (2013) Low-Cut Shirts and High-Heeled Shoes: Increased Sexualization Across Time in Magazine Depictions of Girls, Sex Roles, 69, 11, pp 571-582.

Jackson, S. and Andrews, D. L. (2004) Sports, Culture and Advertising: Identities, Commodities and the Politics of Representation. London: Routledge.*

Larsen, G., Patterson, M., Sabri, O., & Walther, L. (2018). A commentary on the treatment of taboo in consumption and marketing. Journal of Marketing Management, 34(13-14), 1067-1077.

Mohanram, R. Black Body, Women, Colonialism, and Space (London: Allen and Unwin, 1999)
Reichert, T. (2008) Investigating the Use of Sex in Media Promotion and Advertising. Best Business Books*

Paasonen, S., Nikunen, K. and Laura Saarenmaa, K. (2007) Pornification : sex and sexuality in media culture. Oxford ; New York : Berg.

Sawang, S. (2010) Sex Appeal in Advertising: What Consumers Think, Journal of Promotion Management, 16, 1-2, 167-187.

Week 9: Week Commencing 31st October 2022

Monday 31st October
10.00am – 12.00pm Lecture Sex Monsters: Deviance and Perversity in the Media

HDB.G.13

This lecture brings into focus how the media communicates notions of sex and sexuality through their coverage of sex and sexuality. It is argued that at the current social and historical juncture, where sexual meanings are being increasingly disconnected from sexual practices, the media has become important for nostalgic remembering and future imaginings of nationhood, family life, social citizenship, and economic prosperity and social stability. As with most cultural industries, media organizations imbue their commodities with an emotional charge. In order for media organizations to increase the exchange values of their commodity, the product has to resonate with and connect to its audience. This means that news accounts present their commodity through particular arrangements of cultural meaning. This lecture considers the media portrayal of sex monsters and specifically focuses on those connected with schooling. It argues that the media, rather than distancing the reader from sex monsters has to force an uneasy connection. It is those communicative connections that this lecture explores.

Seminars
In this seminar, we will be examining the ways that the media construct sex crime. The analysis of a news report will be the final element of the Portfolio.

Monday 24th October 2.00pm – 3.00pm Seminar HDB.LG.04:
Friday 28th October
11.00am – 12.00pm Seminar ARMB 3.38
Friday 28th October
12.00pm – 1.00pm Seminar ARMB 3.38

Assessment Two

2000 Word Essay

Critically discus media representations of sex offences and the impact this may have on society.

Key Reading

Madoc-Jones, 1., Gorden, C., Dubberley, S. and Hughes, C (2014), ‘From celebrity criminal to criminal celebrity: the celebrification of sex crime in the U.K.’, British Journal of Community Justice, Vol.12, No.3, pp.35-48. ISSN 1475-0279

Peelo M. (2006). Framing homicide narratives in newspapers: Mediated witness and the construction of virtual victimhood. Crime, Media, Culture, 2, 159-175.

Haywood, C. (2013) Schooling Scandals!’: Exploring the Necessity of Cultural Disgust, in J. Potts and Scannell, J. The Unacceptable. Palgrave: London.

Wigger, I. (2019). ‘Anti-Muslim racism and the racialization of sexual violence: ‘intersectional stereotyping’ in mass media representations of male Muslim migrants in Germany’. Culture and Religion, 20(3), pp.248-271.

Associated Reading

Ashenden, S. Policing Perversion: The Contemporary Governance of Paedophilia. Cultural Values Volume: 6 Number: 1 Page: 197 — 222

Bhattachayya, G. (2002) Sexuality and Society: an introduction. Routledge: New York. Especially Representing Sexuality

Critcher, C. (2002) Media, Government and Moral Panic: the politics of paedophilia in Britain 2000-1. Journalism Studies Vol. 3: 4 , 521-535

Fox, K.J. (2012) Incurable Sex Offenders, Lousy Judges & The Media: Moral Panic Sustenance in the Age of New Media, American Journal of Criminal Justice, 38, 1, 160-181.

Greer, C. (2003) Sex crime and the media : sex offending and the press in a divided society. Cullompton: Willan.

Goode, E. and Ben-Yehuda, N. (1994) Moral panics: The Social Construction of Deviance. Oxford: Blackwell.

Hayes, S., Carpenter, B.J and Dwyer, A. (2012) Sex crimes — Moral and ethical aspects. London; Routledge.

Gunter, Barrie. 2002 Media sex : what are the issues Mahwah, N.J. : Erlbaum

Holmberg, D. (1998) Sexualities and Popular Culture. London: Thousand Oaks. Especially Communication and the media chapter

Kitzinger, J. Media templates: patterns of association and the (re)construction of meaning over time. Media, Culture & Society Volume: 22 Number: 1 Page: 61 – 84

Mancini, C. and Pickett, J.T. (2014) The Good, the Bad, and the Incomprehensible: Typifications of Victims and Offenders as Antecedents of Beliefs About Sex Crime J Interpers Violence January 2016 31: 257-281

Soothill, K and Walby, S (1990) Sex Crime in the News. London: Routledge.

Week 10: Week Commencing 7th November 2022

ENHANCEMENT WEEK
********As the week commencing 7 November (Timetable week 10) is an enrichment week,
there will be no teaching for this module in that week. Please check your degree programme Community pages on Canvas for any relevant enrichment week activities********

Week 11: Week Commencing 14TH November 2022

Monday 14th November
10.00am – 12.00pm Lecture Feminism, BDSM and masculinities: Introduction to edge play and risky sexual cultures
HDB.G.13

This lecture will be looking at the culture of BDSM (Bondage, Dominance, Submission and Sado/Masochism) and applying feminist theory in order to understand the interplay between gender, race, sexuality and risk. As witnessed in the past decade, BDSM has become a mainstream sexual platform and has peaked academic interest into the way gender roles are being manifested. This session would specifically be looking at masculinities and discuss the way feminist theory has been studying this sexual culture. While some feminist currents have accused BDSM of perpetuating patriarchal gender roles, others have looked at BDSM as a platform that subverts and breaks gender binary and heteronormativity. Often BDSM is studied through the theories of Judith Butler, Monique Wittig, Arian Cruz, Gayle Rubin and Staci Newmahr, which would be the central points of the lecture.
Online Seminar
In this seminar, I will be talking about the Portfolio and answering any questions that you may have.
Friday 24th October 3.00pm – 4.00pm Seminar https://newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/j/87419520816

Assessment Two

2000 Word Essay
To what extent do you agree with Newmahr’s argument (2011: 106) that ‘[t]through [BDSM] play, gender is performed, mimicked, extended, challenged and subverted’ Critically discuss this statement.

Key readings:
Cruz, A. 2016. The Colour of Kink: Black Women, BDSM and Pornography. New York: New York University Press.
Newmahr, S. 2011. Playing on the Edge. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Weiss, M. 2011. Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality. Durham: Duke University Press.

Associated readings
Bauer, R. 2016. Desiring masculinities while desiring to question masculinity How embodied masculinities are renegotiated in les-bi-trans-queer BDSM practices. NORMA, 11(4), pp.237–254

Beasley, C., 2015. Caution! Hazards ahead: Considering the potential gap between feminist thinking and men/masculinities theory and practice. Journal of Sociology, 51(3), pp.566–581.

Butler, J. 2004. Undoing gender. London: Routledge.

Erickson, J., Slayton, A., Petersen, J., Hyams, H., Howard, L., Sharp, S., Sagarin, B. 2021. Challenge
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