Kink 101: Video Analysis

The documentary on Morgan Spurlock and his fiancée Alex try to survive 30 days on minimum wage. Was a very big learning experience. Going into the movie I learned about The different levels of poverty in america. I always knew that some people lived on minimum wage. I realized that it was hard but seeing in the film was an eye opening.

Describe two new concepts or issues you learned about by watching either the health disparities video or the culturally appropriate health education video.

The first part of this essay includes an literature review from several approaches and their studies on the sexualisation of culture to show the complexity of the phenomenon. The second part explains what contributions the intersectional approach can offer the research on sexualisation of culture. The next part illustrates how intersectionality has helped understanding the sexualization of culture through an example of a violent, hard-core porno film. Finally, the conclusion summarises the main reasons for whether an intersectional approach is needed.

Summarize the 4 main points from the documentary that were most surprising or interesting to you

The video related to Mintz, because they both displayed ways women focused on their appearance.

Answer this question: What was interesting, remarkable, or distinctive to you about this documentary? Give your audience a “taste” of what was interesting about the documentary in terms of what it shows or how it was done. What worked, what didn’t?

For definition of the male gaze, this area of the exhibit will focus on Laura Mulvey’s “Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look.” In this piece, Mulvey discusses two theories: voyeurism and fetishistic scopophilia. To briefly explain, voyeurism involves deriving pleasure from the assertion of control, usually done by a male. On the other hand, fetishistic scopophilia transforms the female entity into an object whose sole purpose is to pleasure. An area of this exhibit include an arcade machine of the game “Mortal Kombat” to depict the difference in the way males and females are drawn and portrayed in video games. Male characters within this game are provided armor, or clothing at the least, that covers their vital organs and suits their fighting style. It is obvious the intention of the male characters’ clothing is functionality. However, the same can not be said about their female counterparts. Not only is their clothing minimal, their fighting style is also hypersexualized. This video game is almost the epitome of Mulvey’s fetishistic scopophilia. Next to this will be side-by-side showcasing of famous superhero costumes such as Wonder Woman vs. Superman and Catwoman vs. the Joker. Again, these costumes reinforce fetishistic scopophilia as female characters are purposely clothed with minimal armor that accentuates a female’s breasts and butt. Music videos are another reliable source for elaborating on fetishistic scopophilia. For instance, the popular rock band Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher” reduces the band’s teacher to nothing but a sexual object to whom they sexually fantasize about instead of respect and learn from. Moreover, the famous “Stacy’s Mom” by Fountains of Wayne reduces the band’s friend’s mom to a sexual object for visual pleasure. The novel “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov will be used to further detail how males view women, even young teens, as subjects for their pleasure,

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The three videos that we have viewed in class that have had the most impact in my personal life have been: the undocumented workers at the dairy farm, The Lunch Date, and Women in Juchitan. The video about the undocumented workers at the dairy farm helped me to understand the importance of the work these people do. They directly said in the video that they were doing jobs that were considered undesirable, and even showed someone offering the job at the dairy farm to white people who were actively job hunting, and declined to work at the dairy farm. I feel as though the dairy farm workers are providing a service to the community, and instead of trying to deport people like them, the community should protect them from deportation because without them we would have sick cows and no milk. I also gained new perspectives on my own implicit biases by watching the film The Lunch Date. I was led to believe, like the actress in the film, that the African American man was homeless and had in fact stolen her salad. I had a profound shift in perspective at the end of this film when I notices, as well as the actress, that her salad plate sat at the next table uneaten. I learned that it is important to understand all the sides of a situation before I make a big judgement call against someone because they fit into a stereotype that I hold. I also found the movie of the Juchitan Women to be transformative because of the perspective of the women in the film, and their views on American

In today’s society, contemporary music videos are a measure of myth about sexuality and gender whereby sexual objectification is accompanied by media culture. Music videos depict images that captures minds, shapes a person’s attitude and tells a story. Throughout the 21st century, music videos have shaped perceptions of women and their role as sexual objects. In this case, the music video Man Down provides a potent example of black masculinity and sexual overtone. This blog entry will speak about how this music video bounds editions of knowledge that women are sexually available and men are sexually desirable.

There is no definitive way to determine which fetishes are normal and which ones are abnormal, however, the commonality of these fetishes can be evaluated by society and the frequency of them. A study was done to attempt to define what makes up an unusual sexual fantasy. The experiment was done through an internet survey of over 1,500 participants. The goal was to determine sexual fantasies that were common and narrow down the ones that were rare according to the statistics. One of the most important statements from this article discusses the difficulty in categorizing fantasies as normal or abnormal. The conclusion of the experiment is that “Care should be taken before labeling an SF as unusual, let alone deviant. It suggested that the focus should be on the effect of a sexual fantasy rather than its content”

She’s conducted speeches at variety of venues including the American Psychiatric Association’s national conference as well as some universes (Vandever, 2015). Ms.Royalle was also the first erotic filmmaker invited to join the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists motivated by the encouragement of positive sexuality in her films (“About Ms.Royalle”).

Sometimes, the person can allow themselves to experience sexual feelings only when punishment for the feelings comes after. A person with sexual masochism may have had experiences in childhood that convinced them that pain should come before sexual pleasure (Sadock, 2007). There is no fully accepted theory or cause that explains the reason for sexual masochism or sadomasochism, but there are some ideas trying to explain why paraphilias exist in general. One reason suggested is the idea that paraphilias start due to the suppression of inappropriate sexual fantasies and because they are suppressed for a period of time, the urge to act on them increases as does the person’s state of frustration and arousal. Also is the thought that masochists would rather be dominate but because this causes them to feel conflicted they submit to their partner. (Sadock,

In the original video Blurred Lines, the song became controversial when released to the public, as according to female viewers it advocated rape, considered woman as sex objects, and devalued the importance of women. In the parody video, Defined Lines, the roles of woman and men are reversed as it shows partially naked men, who are subservient to the women, in terms of their women controlling their actions. Throughout the video, we show how the video can be portrayed to the audience from different perspectives of negative or positive influences on female or male populations.

BDSM stands for bondage, discipline, submission, and masochism and is a type of sexual act that is considered “deviant” in our society since these acts violate social norms we have towards how sexual acts should be performed. BDSM is often performed by a dominatrix which is described as “a woman who takes the dominant or sadistic role in sado-masochistic sexual activities” while the man is subjected to the submissive role (Oxford English Press). This project seeks to understand the views on where BDSM stems from and the health benefits and drawbacks of BDSM. Two of the articles viewed BDSM as a healthy relationship while the other two articles argued that this act was unhealthy. In addition, two of the articles viewed BDSM as conforming to societal roles while the other two viewed it as being a social deviation.