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Assignment #5

According to Rubin’s article, she states that sexuality was seems to be an unimportant topic in earlier centuries. It has its own internal politics, it’s political. Rubin began the argument of sex from England and the United States during late nineteenth century about chastity, eliminated prostitution, and discourage masturbation for the young. In that time, masturbation was consider an unhealthy practice for children. People thought the premature interest in sex would impair the health and maturation of the child. In order to protect the young, parent would tie their children at night to prevent them from touching themselves. But this idea was harmful to the young has been chiselled into people’s mind, this may affected the social and legal structures and make minors lacked the knowledge and experience about sex.

In 1950s, the topic about sexuality shifted to ‘homosexual menace’ and ‘sex offender’. The term ‘sex offender’ sometimes applied to rapists, sometimes to ‘child molester’ and eventually functioned as a code for homosexuals. During the time period from 1940s to 1981, the polices raided in gay bars and bath houses, arrested hundreds of people. This results the increasing of ‘Queerbashing’. The crackdown was not been limited to homosexuals. In 1977, the child pornography laws were claimed to protect the minors. All photographs of naked children in anthropology textbooks and movies was banned. This may not be a perfect way, but in people’s opinion, naked was always involve with sex. So it did have some help to protect the minors.

For many people, society must worked with the ‘moral’ way. But the ‘morality’ they believe may not be true, what they say as moral was the life style which majority people believe it’s true. Otherwise, it’s against the rule, it’s immoral.