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Sexuality and Social Policy

2025· book-chapter· en· W4410611474 on OpenAlexaffabout
Melanie Heath, Ashley McKay

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSex work and related issues
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHuman sexualitySociologyGender studiesPolitical science

Abstract

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Abstract In Canada, the state has a history of regulating sexuality that has privileged white, heterosexual, upper-class citizens. This chapter examines the history of sexual regulation through law and policy in Canada, recognizing the ways that it has reinforced and challenged norms of sexuality, and how this regulation differs according to class status, race and ethnicity, nationality, citizenship status, and other identities. The chapter provides perspective on how this history shapes the ways that sexuality is regulated today through laws, policies, and institutions that determine who is included and excluded from various social protections and benefits. It begins by addressing regulation of sexuality through the norms of marriage and family. Next, it turns to how the Canadian welfare state has regulated sexual norms, and how reproductive healthcare is institutionalized in ways that both protect and discriminate. Finally, the chapter turns to the regulation of sex work and discrimination against LGBTQ2SIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, Two-Spirit, intersex, asexual, and anyone else that identifies as a gender or sexuality other than cisgender male, cisgender female, and heterosexual) Canadians.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.904
Threshold uncertainty score0.471

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0080.014
Scholarly communication0.0060.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0170.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.271
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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