Arizona State University WST 313 Quiz 4 1)According to McGanns Healing (Disorderly) Desire” (2006), the major categories of sexual disorder in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM) are neutral classifications that do not encode any normative assumptions of sexuality

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WST 313

Quiz 4

1)According to McGanns Healing (Disorderly) Desire” (2006), the major categories of sexual disorder in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM) are neutral classifications that do not encode any normative assumptions of sexuality.

2. According to McGann’s “Healing (Disorderly) Desire” (2006), the major categories of sexual disorder in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM) are neutral classifications that do not encode any normative assumptions of sexuality.

3. How has female masturbation been understood historically? As a sin and threat to soical stability

4. The ‘therapeutic regulation of sex’ that McGann describes in “Healing (Disorderly) Desire” (2006) is an example of social control that relies on opaque dichotomies, such as those of health/illness and normality/abnormality.

5. The short film “The Perfect Vagina” looks at women’s dissatisfaction with the appearance of their vaginas as similar to their dissatisfaction with other parts of their bodies, like their breasts, stomachs, and legs, and argues that labioplasty is an extreme form of body modification, which is already acceptable for women (waxing, dyeing, etc.).

6. According to Jane Juffer (1998), women are very comfortable masturbating as well as discussing about it.

7. The idea of a surgical ‘fix’ of sexual pleasure locates sexual pleasure at the level of the individual body, rather than in relation to a ‘fit’ between bodies and the practices they are engaged in, which disregards the particularities of sex, according to Braun (2005).

8. How has academic sexuality research over the past century improved our understanding of women’s experiences of desire and pleasure?