Men's Sexuality Research Articles

Sexuality of Men with HIV Disease

Sexuality of Men with HIV Disease

American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender, and Race since the Civil War

Enacted by reformers, radicals, and reactionaries, the drama of American sexual politics since the Civil War is as diverse and unpredictable as the nation's citizenry. In this collection of sixteen essays, the shifting tensions between sexual reform and repression are seen in historical explorations of men's and women's sexuality, of the sexual-social dynamics of lesbians and gay men, of the violent repression of African-American sexuality. The broad range of methodological approaches and perspectives make this multidisciplinary anthology an exciting contribution to the history of sexuality. Included are Anthony S. Parent, Jr., and Susan Brown Wallace on childhood and sexual identity under slavery; Martha Hodes on white women and Black men in the South; Kevin J. Mumford on sexual impotence and Victorian Culture; Jesse F. Battan on language, authority, and sexual desire; Joan Smith Iversen on the antipolygamy controversy, 1880-1890; Angus McLaren on sex radicalism in the Canadian Pacific Northwest, 1890-1920; Pamela S. Haag on ideologies of love, modern romance, and women's sexual subjectivity; Ann duCille on the novels of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen; Robyn Wiegman on the anatomy of lynching; Sonya Michel on sexuality in postwar films; Carole Joffe on abortion before legalization; Roy Cain on disclosure and secrecy among gay men; Joshua Gamson on condoms; Lillian Faderman on the return of butch and femme; Katherine Cummings on teaching AIDS; and Arthur Flannigan-Saint-Aubin on black gay male discourse. This diverse overview of American sexual politics will interest students and scholars of the history of sexuality, gender studies, women's studies, and gay studies. These essayspreviously appeared in the Journal of the History of Sexuality. John C. Fout is professor of history at Bard College and editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality. He is also general editor of the Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society, published by the University of Chicago Press. Maura Shaw Tantillo is the managing editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality.

Restoring The Black Man's Lethal Weapon Race & Sexuality in Contemporary Cop Films

(1992). Restoring The Black Man's Lethal Weapon Race & Sexuality in Contemporary Cop Films. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 52-60.

The study of men's coercive sexuality: What course should it take?

The study of men's coercive sexuality: What course should it take?

The evolutionary psychology of men's coercive sexuality

AbstractPsychological adaptation underlies all human behavior. Thus, sexual coercion by men could either arise from a rape-specific psychological adaptation or it could be a side-effect of a more general psychological adaptation not directly related to rape. Determining the specific environmental cues that men's brains have been designed by selection to process may help us decide which these rival explanations is correct. We examine six testable predictions against existing data: (1) Both coercive and noncoercive will be associated with high levels of sexual arousal and performance in men. (2) Achieving physical control of a sexually unwilling woman will be sexually arousing to men. (3) Young men will be more sexually coercive than older men. (4) Men of low socioeconomic status will likewise be more sexually coercive. (5) A man's motivation to use sexual coercion will be influenced by its effects on social image. (6) Even in long-term relationships men will be motivated to use coercion when their mates show a lack of interest in resistance to sex because these are interpreted as signs of sexual infidelity. Current data support all six predictions and are hence consistent with the rape-specific hypothesis, but this does not eliminate the side-effect hypothesis, which is likewise compatible with the findings, as well as with the further evidence that forced matings increased the fitness of ancestral males during human evolution. We suggest some research that may help decide between the two hypotheses.

Semen-Conservation Theory vs. Semen-Investment Theory, Antisexualism, and the Return of Freud's Seduction Theory

The semen-investment theory of the Sambia people of New Guinea is the antithesis of semen-conservation theory which his extremely ancient origins in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine and in the Biblical story of Onan. In 18th century medicine, semen wastage became a cornerstone of degeneracy theory. The signs of degeneracy were those of syphilis and gonorrhea combined. They were correctly attributed to the social vice of indiscriminate promiscuity, and incorrectly to the solitary vice of masturbation. The 19th century crescendo of antisexualism influenced phase one of the women's emancipation movement and dictated the renunciation of women's sexuality. In phase two of the movement in the 20th century, antisexualism dictated the repudiation of men's sexuality as exploitation of females. By 1895, Freud had formulated his seduction theory. In 1897, he supplanted it with psychoanalytic fantasy theory. The actuality of seduction, i.e., sexual child abuse, became discounted until the 1960s. In the 1970s seduction theory was revived and recycled as victimology theory, which, carried to extremes, replete with false accusations of satanism, has fed into a new surge of antisexualism, with adverse consequences for the advance of sexological science.

Symbolic Sexuality and Economic Work in Dominica, West Indies: The Naturalization of Sex and Women's Work in Development

In this essay, I draw from a specific ethnographic example to elucidate the connections among gender, sexuality and work, and to argue for a method of analysis encompassing both the symbolic and the economic. Such an analysis requires the problematization of the distinction between sex as "natural" and gender as "cultural" in much feminist thought, and of the public/domestic dichotomy as it has been used to explain women's oppression. Symbolic meanings embodied in sexuality cannot be reduced to the gendered economics of production and reproduction, yet neither can production and reproduction be explained away or ignored completely by a symbolic approach. In the Commonwealth of Dominica in the West Indies, men's work and sexuality are linguistically marked and conceptualized as highly differentiated. Women's sexuality and work, on the other hand, are unmarked and undervalued. Parallel meanings are attached to work and to sexuality, and these parallel meanings inform an economic and symbolic system in which women's power over their own bodies and economies is undermined.

HIERARCHIES, JOBS, BODIES:

In spite of feminist recognition that hierarchical organizations are an important location of male dominance, most feminists writing about organizations assume that organizational structure is gender neutral. This article argues that organizational structure is not gender neutral; on the contrary, assumptions about gender underlie the documents and contracts used to construct organizations and to provide the commonsense ground for theorizing about them. Their gendered nature is partly masked through obscuring the embodied nature of work. Abstract jobs and hierarchies, common concepts in organizational thinking, assume a disembodies and universal worker. This worker is actually a man; men's bodies, sexuality, and relationships to procreation and paid work are subsumed in the image of the worker. Images of men's bodies and masculinity pervade organizational processes, marginalizing women and contributing to the maintenance of gender segregation in organizations. The positing of gender-neutral and disembodied organizational structures and work relations is part of the larger strategy of control in industrial capitalist societies, which, at least partly, are built upon a deeply embedded substructure of gender difference.

The Sexuality of Men and the Sociology of Gender

In recent years writers in the field of the sociology of gender have turned to psychoanalysis for insights into the psychological dimensions of female sexuality. The same insights are now being applied to the analysis of masculinity. This paper argues that the full advantages of this are undermined by the adoption of an object-relations perspective which restores the social determinism from which many such writers seek to escape. This argument is pursued through a detailed analysis of one recent text in the field – The Sexuality of Men (eds) A. Metcalf and M. Humphries (1985) – but is applied more widely to the treatment of sexuality in the sociology of gender.

The Effects of Clothing and Dyad Sex Composition on Perceptions of Sexual Intent: Do Women and Men Evaluate These Cues Differently1

The effects of clothing revealingness and dyad‐sex composition on perceptions of male‐ and female‐stimulus persons' sexuality were examined. Based on Abbey's (1982) findings, we hypothesized that men would attribute more sexuality to both male and female targets than women would. Furthermore, we predicted that the difference between men's and women's sexuality ratings would be most divergent when a male‐female dyad was presented and when the female stimulus person wore revealing clothing. A laboratory study was conducted in which subjects viewed a photograph of two students in a classroom. As predicted, male subjects rated female targets as more sexy and seductive than did female subjects. Also as predicted, female targets who wore revealing clothing were rated as more sexy and seductive than those wearing nonrevealing clothing. Female targets were rated higher on sexual traits regardless of the gender of their partner. Men did not consistently perceive male stimulus persons more sexually than women did. Finally, both female and male targets were perceived as more kind and warm when they wore nonrevealing clothing. The implications of these findings for person perception and date rape research are described.

Reviews : The Sexuality of Men, edited by Andy Metcalf and Martin Humphries. London & Sydney, Pluto Press, 1985

Reviews : The Sexuality of Men, edited by Andy Metcalf and Martin Humphries. London & Sydney, Pluto Press, 1985

Redefining Sexuality from Women's Own Experiences

Traditionally women's sexuality has been defined and described using narrow and socially prescribed concepts. In the past 20 years new ideas about women's sexuality have emerged. At the same time, sexuality has become a legitimate concern for health professionals. Nurses and their clients can benefit from learning about the emerging woman-centered concepts of sexuality. Women's sexuality is not primarily a response to men's sexuality but has its own characteristics. A woman's sexuality is an expression of mutuality, involving not only physical gratification but also a sense of herself as a woman in the context of her life, her relationships, and emotions. Several groups of women whose sexual needs have traditionally been unmet by nurses and other health care professionals include adolescents, physically disabled women, lesbians, and older women. A self-care frame-work differentiates socially constructed definitions of sexuality from lived experience and suggests the importance of attending to individual women's experiences throughout life.

Another Woman That Never ExistedThe Woman That Never Evolved.Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.

Another Woman That Never Existed<i>The Woman That Never Evolved.</i>Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.

Beyond the Male Myth: What Women Want to Know About Men's Sexuality. A Nationwide Survey

Beyond the Male Myth: What Women Want to Know About Men's Sexuality. A Nationwide Survey

Review of Beyond the male myth: What women want to know about men's sexuality: A nationwide survey.

Review of Beyond the male myth: What women want to know about men's sexuality: A nationwide survey.

The practicing physician, the community, and the question of moralities.

Out-of-wedlock births, illegal abortions, children being raised by parents who are themselves children, broken marriages at all ages, homosexuality, venereal disease—these and other problems relating to human sexual behavior can no longer be ignored. The obligation to deal constructively with them rests with the professionals in all fields of family service. It is not enough to shake our heads in moralistic judgment. We must come to terms with sexuality. A newly formed voluntary health agency, SIECUS, is described. Its purpose is “to establish man's sexuality as a health entity.”

Sexual Hygiene and Pathology.

A casual glance at the news of the day, the news that reflects the mores of our times, reveals how a high-ranking government official who was accused of, and arrested for, an immoral act is excused with special deference by psychiatrists from facing any potentially unpleasant confrontations on the grounds of health; albeit he subsequently is allowed face the pressures of the business world. Another news item tells us about college chaplains who want a new morality—one that recognizes, permits, and even excuses illicit sexual relationships. In New York City, where nudity is banned from the Broadway stage by law, a church permitted the performance of a new dance in front of an audience in which the performers were completely nude. Finally, yet another voluntary health association has been formed with the announced goal: to establish man's sexuality as a health entity. Take all the above as representative of

The Christian Understanding of Man's Sexuality

The Christian Understanding of Man's Sexuality