Pub Date : 2024-02-08DOI: 10.1177/13634607241232597
M. Naezer, Willemijn Krebbekx
This paper explores the potential of entertainment education (EE) in teaching about sexuality, especially in terms of (1) addressing gaps and instigating an approach that is more (2) youth-centred and (3) norm-critical than conventional sex education. Based on the analysis of five projects in the Netherlands (escape room, educational theatre performance, interactive website, offline game, VR production), we argue that these methods attend to often-overlooked themes. Moreover, they allow for higher levels of student activity and student responsibility: elements of a youth-centred approach. Yet, EE-initiatives are not by themselves more norm-critical, and we observed inequality practices such as heteronormativity and victim-blaming. In our conclusion, we define crucial conditions for realising the potential of EE in teaching about sexuality.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1177/13634607241232556
Jakob Svensson, Emil Edenborg, Cecilia Strand
This article unpacks different meanings of visibility and adds to a more complex and nuanced understanding of visibility and its role in LGBT + activism in Uganda, a widely discussed case of political homophobia. Public visibility has a central, although contested, role here. The study aims to explore how visibility is understood and navigated by local LGBT + activists, unaffiliated people with same-sex desires, as well as international development partners. Interviews conducted in Kampala from December 2021–January 2022 reveal different and complex narratives surrounding visibility. Local unaffiliated individuals and activists agreed on the importance of making the LGBT + rights struggle more visible. This, however, did not translate into a wish to “come out” themselves. International development actors expressed a need for caution regarding their own visibility, mindful that explicit and visual support may generate accusations of neo-imperialism.
这篇文章解读了可见性的不同含义，使人们对可见性及其在乌干达女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和变性者活动中的作用有了更加复杂和细致入微的理解。公众能见度在其中发挥着核心作用，尽管这种作用是有争议的。本研究旨在探讨当地的 LGBT + 活动家、无党派的同性渴望者以及国际发展合作伙伴是如何理解和驾驭可见性的。2021 年 12 月至 2022 年 1 月在坎帕拉进行的访谈揭示了围绕可见性的不同而复杂的叙述。当地的无党派人士和活动家一致认为，提高 LGBT + 权利斗争的可见度非常重要。然而，这并没有转化为他们自己 "出柜 "的愿望。国际发展行动者表示需要谨慎对待自己的能见度，因为明确和直观的支持可能会引起对新帝国主义的指责。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1177/13634607241232556
Jakob Svensson, Emil Edenborg, Cecilia Strand
This article unpacks different meanings of visibility and adds to a more complex and nuanced understanding of visibility and its role in LGBT + activism in Uganda, a widely discussed case of political homophobia. Public visibility has a central, although contested, role here. The study aims to explore how visibility is understood and navigated by local LGBT + activists, unaffiliated people with same-sex desires, as well as international development partners. Interviews conducted in Kampala from December 2021–January 2022 reveal different and complex narratives surrounding visibility. Local unaffiliated individuals and activists agreed on the importance of making the LGBT + rights struggle more visible. This, however, did not translate into a wish to “come out” themselves. International development actors expressed a need for caution regarding their own visibility, mindful that explicit and visual support may generate accusations of neo-imperialism.
这篇文章解读了可见性的不同含义，使人们对可见性及其在乌干达女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和变性者活动中的作用有了更加复杂和细致入微的理解。公众能见度在其中发挥着核心作用，尽管这种作用是有争议的。本研究旨在探讨当地的 LGBT + 活动家、无党派的同性渴望者以及国际发展合作伙伴是如何理解和驾驭可见性的。2021 年 12 月至 2022 年 1 月在坎帕拉进行的访谈揭示了围绕可见性的不同而复杂的叙述。当地的无党派人士和活动家一致认为，提高 LGBT + 权利斗争的可见度非常重要。然而，这并没有转化为他们自己 "出柜 "的愿望。国际发展行动者表示需要谨慎对待自己的能见度，因为明确和直观的支持可能会引起对新帝国主义的指责。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1177/13634607241230754
Liza Tsaliki, D. Chronaki
Following recent academic attention on the neoliebral self, in this article, we situate the construction of the sexual self and body as part of an ongoing, neoliberal ‘aesthetic entrepreneurship’ and argue that people draw on various material and cultural resources in order to put these entrepreneurial selves together. Drawing on 40 open-ended interviews with young Greek adults aged between 20 and 33, conducted between 2018 and 2019, we explore the cultural and material resources people use in order to create the intimate self. We situate our work within an analytical framework about the ‘aesthetic labour’ people invest themselves into within neoliberalism and argue that such work contributes to the growing body of work on self-surveillance and the articulation of an ethical self.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1177/13634607241230754
Liza Tsaliki, D. Chronaki
Following recent academic attention on the neoliebral self, in this article, we situate the construction of the sexual self and body as part of an ongoing, neoliberal ‘aesthetic entrepreneurship’ and argue that people draw on various material and cultural resources in order to put these entrepreneurial selves together. Drawing on 40 open-ended interviews with young Greek adults aged between 20 and 33, conducted between 2018 and 2019, we explore the cultural and material resources people use in order to create the intimate self. We situate our work within an analytical framework about the ‘aesthetic labour’ people invest themselves into within neoliberalism and argue that such work contributes to the growing body of work on self-surveillance and the articulation of an ethical self.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1177/13634607241230748
Steven L. Dashiell, Alexis Rowland
This paper examines how men in online discourses are constrained by sexual ideals, and use curated discourses in an effort to empower their social selves. Drawing from Adam Green’s work, we speculate that an erotic habitus surrounding sexual ideas allows men who see themselves besieged by porn and masturbation addiction to craft specific male-oriented language. In this paper, we demonstrate how men operationalize this erotic habitus through discursive behaviors. We use thematic analysis to analyze the forum posts of men in the No Fap community, a worldwide association of men who have sworn off masturbation ( n = 610). Particularly, we consider how the men articulate an antagonistic relationship with online pornography, and use an erotic habitus framed in language to note their reaction to perceived adversaries and their own strength to remain abstinent, devoid of humor, or sarcasm. These discourses have underlying elements of a muted relationship with patriarchal ideals, consistent with a collapsed masculinity. However, through the erasure of topics from these conversations, a heterosexist and women-absent conversation still implies a male-centric power.
本文探讨了网络话语中的男性如何受制于性理想，并利用精心策划的话语来增强其社会自我。借鉴亚当-格林（Adam Green）的研究成果，我们推测，围绕性观念的情色习惯使那些认为自己被色情和手淫成瘾所困扰的男性能够创造出特定的男性导向语言。在本文中，我们将展示男性如何通过话语行为来操作这种情色习惯。我们使用主题分析法分析了 "No Fap "社区中男性的论坛帖子，这是一个由发誓戒除手淫的男性组成的全球性协会（n = 610）。特别是，我们考虑了这些男性是如何阐述与网络色情的对立关系，以及如何使用一种以语言为框架的情色习性，来记录他们对感知到的对手的反应，以及他们自己保持禁欲的力量，没有幽默，也没有讽刺。这些话语的基本要素是与父权制理想的缄默关系，与崩溃的男性气质相一致。然而，通过抹去这些对话中的话题，异性恋和女性缺席的对话仍然意味着以男性为中心的权力。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1177/13634607241230748
Steven L. Dashiell, Alexis Rowland
This paper examines how men in online discourses are constrained by sexual ideals, and use curated discourses in an effort to empower their social selves. Drawing from Adam Green’s work, we speculate that an erotic habitus surrounding sexual ideas allows men who see themselves besieged by porn and masturbation addiction to craft specific male-oriented language. In this paper, we demonstrate how men operationalize this erotic habitus through discursive behaviors. We use thematic analysis to analyze the forum posts of men in the No Fap community, a worldwide association of men who have sworn off masturbation ( n = 610). Particularly, we consider how the men articulate an antagonistic relationship with online pornography, and use an erotic habitus framed in language to note their reaction to perceived adversaries and their own strength to remain abstinent, devoid of humor, or sarcasm. These discourses have underlying elements of a muted relationship with patriarchal ideals, consistent with a collapsed masculinity. However, through the erasure of topics from these conversations, a heterosexist and women-absent conversation still implies a male-centric power.
本文探讨了网络话语中的男性如何受制于性理想，并利用精心策划的话语来增强其社会自我。借鉴亚当-格林（Adam Green）的研究成果，我们推测，围绕性观念的情色习惯使那些认为自己被色情和手淫成瘾所困扰的男性能够创造出特定的男性导向语言。在本文中，我们将展示男性如何通过话语行为来操作这种情色习惯。我们使用主题分析法分析了 "No Fap "社区中男性的论坛帖子，这是一个由发誓戒除手淫的男性组成的全球性协会（n = 610）。特别是，我们考虑了这些男性是如何阐述与网络色情的对立关系，以及如何使用一种以语言为框架的情色习性，来记录他们对感知到的对手的反应，以及他们自己保持禁欲的力量，没有幽默，也没有讽刺。这些话语的基本要素是与父权制理想的缄默关系，与崩溃的男性气质相一致。然而，通过抹去这些对话中的话题，异性恋和女性缺席的对话仍然意味着以男性为中心的权力。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-19DOI: 10.1177/13634607241228110
Ramona Dima
Informed by interviews with queer women, nonbinary persons, and a trans man, this article aims to fill a major gap in the Southeastern European sexuality studies. It does that by depicting and analyzing several microhistories from communism (1947–1989) and from the early 1990s Romania. The 1990s were also marked by the communist legacy and same-sex relationships continued to be criminalized until 2001. Since gay men’s accounts are much more represented in the public space and in the incipient literature on queerness in Romania, the article offers an alternative view beyond this tendency, by bringing forth the particularities and experiences of cisgender women and trans persons and their day-to-day lives within the patriarchal and homophobic society. The article argues that during communism matters of queerness were known, although rarely discussed, and that the accounts of queer women and trans persons were not absent but neglected. Another objective is to offer explanations for the lack of these marginal (ized) accounts in the incipient gender and queer studies literature on Romania.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-19DOI: 10.1177/13634607241228114
Chong Liu, Qiqi Huang
This article discusses the experience of Chinese young men relating to sexual abstinence through the Abstinence Bar ( jiese ba 戒色吧) – an online community, with over six million members, dedicated to preaching the benefits of sexual abstinence – to identify how it represents a problematic strategy of ‘doing gender’ in post-socialist China. Based on a critical discourse analysis of the posts in the Abstinence Bar, we argue that the prosperity of the Abstinence Bar has re-stabilized the hegemony of dominant masculinities through cultural changes which intersect with individualism and nationalism. Consequently, it is essential to advocate evidence-based sexuality education among Chinese young people.
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