‘If You’ve Got a Vagina and an Attitude, that’s a Deadly Combination’: Sex and Heterosexuality in Basic Instinct, Body of Evidence and Disclosure
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Abstract
A large body of work exists on women’s sexuality and its construction and misrepresentation in media texts, yet little research analyses explicit sex scenes in mainstream film. Drawing on textual analyses of the sex scenes in Basic Instinct (P. Verhoeven, 1992), Body of Evidence (U. Edel, 1993) and Disclosure (B. Levinson, 1994), the article addresses these issues more specifically. We argue that a consideration of the heterosexual identities and the heterosexual sexual practice (heterosex) displayed in the films can offer opportunities for the disruption of hegemonic heteronormativity. Two of the films discussed - Body of Evidence and Disclosure - offer powerful, although stereotyped forms of feminine heterosexual identity and subversive sexual practice. The final film considered - Basic Instinct - displays alternative forms of feminine sexuality, but ultimately returns to a publicly sanctioned form of heterosexual identity. Within all three films the coding of heterosex, heterosexuality and feminism incompletely conforms to a heteronormative framing, offering space for the viewer to possibly reassess sex and heterosexuality.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it