1. HETEROSEXUALITY
EXPOSED
Written, Directed, and Presented by
Sean Brinchamn and Rhiann Peterson

2. MAIN POINTS OF ARTICLE
• Reflection on the dominant paradigms that show U.S. Latinas
and their experiences of heterosexual love and sex
• Analysis of how coming of age ceremonies further portray the
heterosexual lifestyle
• Examination of how race relations and heterosexuality have
promoted white racial and heterosexual supremacy in U.S.
Latina/o communities

3. HISTORICAL SEXUALITY
• What does “historical heterosexuality” mean to you?
• How does it shape the way we see ourselves today?
• Machismo vs. Marinismos
• Macho, virgin, whore (what are the differences?)
• The term marianismo is still used today when
describing the disempowerment Latina women
feel within their families and relationships.

4. STIGMATIZED ISSUES REGARDING
HETEROSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS
• Promoting theoretical fiction
• Empirical inaccuracy's they promote
• Damaging images that they portray
• Racism and classism that they produce

5. SECOND TYPE OF PARADIGM
(INSPIRED BY SOCIAL SCIENCES)
• Women and men’s experiences in heterosexual relationships
• Coming of age
• Desire and emotional dimensions for experiencing pleasure in heterosexual
relationships
• Differences between mother and daughters when it comes to premarital sex
and virginity
• Socioeconomic status
• Psychophysical development
• Everyday interactions between men and women
• Migration and sexual violence against women
• Catholic religion
• Sex and heterosexuality in context of migration
• Incorporation and settlement process

6. HETERONORMATIVITY
• What does it mean to you?
• How does it affect the way we grew
up in the U.S.?

7. HOW THE AUTHOR SEES IT
• Norms and institution
• Constraints that control you emotions and sexual desires
• Beliefs, attitudes and behaviors
• Everyday interactions with people where heterosexuality is the
idealized and expected form of sexuality

8. DOUBLE MORALITY
• What is the message of double morality?
• In what ways do we see heterosexuality celebrated, stimulated,
and suppressed simultaneously?

9. RIGHTS OF PASSAGE
• Quinceañera- How are the girls affected by the double
morality?
• What about the Brothel tradition for adolescent males?
• What about a lesbian quinceañera? What would that look like?

10. TRADITIONS FOR CORRECTING
HOMOSEXUAL/LESBIAN BEHAVIOR
• Taking boys to brothel to have sex with women may cause fear,
anger, pain, confusion, and fear
• The story of a girls parents of paid a police officer to have sex
with her to “make her a women” when he just ended up raping
her
• What kind of emotional reaction did you experience to these
anecdotes?
• How do you feel about using traditions to correct homosexual
behavior?

11. RACIALIZED HETEROSEXUALITY
• What are the gender differences for marrying up?
• Do the same aspects go into marrying down?
• What do men need in order to marry up?

12. SER VS. ESTAR
• How was the language changed in order to have new
meanings?
• Why did this make it seem as though
homosexuality/lesbianism was more temporary?

13. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gonzalez Lopez, Gloria. "Heterosexuality Exposed: Some Feminist
Sociological Reflections on Heterosexual Sex and Romance in U.S. Latina/o
Communities." 2010. Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and
Policies. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2010. 103-16. Print.