Representations of Sexuality
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- Created on: 26-03-18 11:25
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- Media Representation of Sexuality
- Batchelor
- Some aspects are portrayed positively
- Publicity of sexual health
- Discussion of consent
- Being ready for sex
- Limitations
- Contraception being presented as a female responsibility
- Boys + men seen as the pursuers of sex, and women and men seen as being pursued
- Lack of positive images for the LGBTQ community
- Some aspects are portrayed positively
- 1980s moral panic
- HIV 'Gay Plague'
- 1990s moral panic
- Promiscuous teenage girls and benefits
- BBC had 145 complaints after screen a gay kiss before the 9pm watershed - Daily Mail 2008
- Sexuality is represented stereotypically
- Gill
- Homosexuality is represented in a 'sanitised way' - rarely includes homosexuals represented in a sexualised manner
- Gerbner
- Symbolic annihilation of gay people by not portraying them realistically.
- Some sociologists have observed that the media is controlled m/c, white, heterosexual males, and the result is the view of homosexuality through a 'heterosexual gaze'
- Swanson
- Caricatured stereotypes draw on common impressions, which may account fro the stereotypes
- Batchelor et al
- Analysis of young people, media, and sexuality
- Many positives for heterosexuality; not the case for homosexuality
- Lack of positive images for gay teens
- Many positives for heterosexuality; not the case for homosexuality
- Analysis of young people, media, and sexuality
- Gill
- Sexuality is not represented stereotypically
- Wilke
- Programs such as 'Queer as Folk' have resulted in less stereotypical representations - gay men portrayed as more sexual
- Gauntlett
- Gay, lesbian, and bisexual people are still underrepresented, but are slowly changing for the better.
- Television offering prime-time audiences to 'get to know' gay characters in soap operas, drama series, and sitcoms
- Gay, lesbian, and bisexual people are still underrepresented, but are slowly changing for the better.
- Increased representation of homosexuals e.g. Alan Carr
- Pink Power
- Spending power of the LGBTQ community
- Many LGBT individuals have professions with disposable incomes, so have courted customers through gay-positive advertising
- Wilke
- Batchelor
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