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Assignment #10

According to Cabezas’ reading, sexual citizenship can be considering as a kind of relationship between the people that involved in sex work. In the article, Cabezas explained the sexual citizenship with a specific example called sex tourism, it refers to the sexual acts between people that depends on money. Those “sex worker” and individuals were viewed as “sexual deviants” by society, usually this views were given by their socioeconomic class, race and gender, etc. In the other hand, those who were not consider as sex worker, their social views will be treated as romance and friendship.

The gender equality was also related with sexual citizenship. In usual, those who consider sex workers, women will occupy more percentages than men. In the society, if a woman had sex with more than one man, it’s treat as promiscuous, but if this situation happened in a man, this person will be regard as normal, because people think man should had those sexual needs to be look as a normal man. This situation shows the gender inequality between man and women, because the society gave more tolerance to men than women.

Cabezas also referred the term “sexual citizenship” to the acceptance in the public life of the different sexualities, particularly those women outside heteronormativity. She gave the people inCuba and Domonican Republic as the example of the different sexualities. In those countries, the people treat those solitary women, lesbian and other sexual minorities will not respect. They are target for moral panic and harassment by police.The society viewed them as not normal and unmoral. Compare them with the women in heteronormativity, those sexual minorities may be treat as the lowest class.