The phrase "normative sexuality" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to societal norms and expectations surrounding sexual behavior and identities. You can use it in contexts discussing societal attitudes towards sexuality or in discussions of how these norms impact individuals. For example: - "The media often perpetuates narrow definitions of normative sexuality, portraying only cisgender, heterosexual relationships as the ideal." - "Many people struggle with their own identities and desires because they do not fit into the construct of normative sexuality enforced by society." - "In some cultures, there is a strict adherence to traditional ideas of normative sexuality, leading to discrimination towards those who deviate from these norms."
Normative sexualities are intrinsically linked to ideologies of domination and inequality; sexual inequalities are embedded in a host of political and social inequalities.
But within this demographic is another subset marginalized groups who experience similar policing because of gender identity or non-normative sexuality.
Now, it wasn't enough to gently mock non-normative sexuality or drug use, it had to be treated as evil and the characters themselves eventually punished, usually by death.
Non-normative sexuality and gender identity are still markers of difference within our society, but as the success of these and other LGBTQ civil servants shows, it's one that may be shrinking by the year.
For example, in her queer studies-based article, "Historical Romance, Gender and Heterosexuality", Lisa Fletcher argues that The French Lieutenant's Woman, by relying on a "good love story" as the central means of representing the past, projects a contemporary hetero-normative sexuality on the history of Victorian England.
Of course, most everything that took place at Hedo would have been illegal in Jamaica proper in most of the United States, even, which tends to frown upon public nudity and overt displays of non-normative sexuality (not to mention exhibitionism, BDSM, and drinking beverages in pools).
The institutional profile of the Center for Gender, Sexuality and HIV at JPGSPH where the study was housed provided a "respectable" and neutral platform for discussions on non-normative sexuality and rights.
For instance, when MSM and hijra are refused medical treatment or harassed by police on the streets, it is as much their class standing as their non-normative sexuality that works against them.
In this essay, lo sucio is in conversation with three racialized discourses of difference: first, lewd, obscene, offensive hypersexual undisciplined bodies; second, darkened, suspect citizens perpetually untrustworthy, impure, and disloyal to the state; and third, diseased "cultures of poverty" subjects overdetermined to fail to arrive to normative gender and sexuality.
"Queer Surrealism: As peripheral surrealism", July 23 , 2009 Surrealism and Non-Normative Sexualities.
