{"id":184,"date":"2018-02-26T10:12:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T15:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/?p=184"},"modified":"2018-02-26T10:12:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T15:12:49","slug":"bl-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/bl-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"BL Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/LESS-BIRTH-CONTROL-MORE-SELF-CONTROL-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-185 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/LESS-BIRTH-CONTROL-MORE-SELF-CONTROL-2-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/LESS-BIRTH-CONTROL-MORE-SELF-CONTROL-2-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/LESS-BIRTH-CONTROL-MORE-SELF-CONTROL-2.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0In focusing on \u201cLess Birth Control More Self-Control\u201d which is the first thing that jumps out, it is implying that women need to control and restrain themselves and their bodies from engaging in sex. This image contains a variety of larger societal implications and relates directly to the concept of \u201csex panic\u201d as it serves as propaganda for women to prevent themselves from expressing their sexuality. The image also attempts to attack women and accuses them for being killers as it also serves as an anti- abortion and blames their lack of control. This image displaying \u201csex panic\u201d might have been something imposed by the Church as it is a potential way to implement some sort of control by invoking a sense of shame or guilt in women when it comes to their sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Asexuality complicates the heteronormative message of this image.\u00a0 Its focal point is on the what Przybylo would call the \u201ccentralization of sex and sexuality in Western contexts\u201d (Pryzbylo, Chapter 21). \u00a0Sex, as explained in the text, is \u201cused in the service of building intimacy and creating and maintaining social bonds\u201d (Pryzbylo, Chapter 21).\u00a0 This image portrays the dominant narrative of Western heterosexuality and that women should only be having sex with men if it is for the purposes of procreation and condemns women having sex simply for pleasure. Asexuality disrupts this pervasive narrative as there is no sexual inclination, hence, self-control is not an issue nor is it even existent when it comes to asexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p>Image, \u201cLess Birth Control More Self-Control.\u201d\u00a0<i>Life News<\/i>, www.lifenews.com\/2014\/01\/27\/black-media-shills-for-big-abortion-planned-parenthood\/.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anonymous_element_11\">Ela Przybylo, Introducing Asexuality, Unthinking Sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In focusing on \u201cLess Birth Control More Self-Control\u201d which is the first thing that jumps out, it is implying that women need to control and restrain themselves and their bodies from engaging in sex. This image contains a variety of larger societal implications and relates directly to the concept of \u201csex panic\u201d as it serves &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/bl-week-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BL Week 6&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}