Voices of the Mind: Hegemonic Masculinity and Others in Mind during Young Men's Sexual Encounters
Voices of the Mind: Hegemonic Masculinity and Others in Mind during Young Men's Sexual Encounters
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DOI：
10.1177/1097184x17695038
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发表时间：
2018-06-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Dangler, Lucas
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作者：
Lamb, Sharon;Kosterina, Elena V.;Dangler, Lucas
很少有研究调查过年轻男性在性生活中的想法。这种探索可能会揭示性别规范话语以及对这种话语的挑战。这种话语分析将内部言语理解为既体现了男性气质的现状理想，又挑战了它们。我们使用霸权男性气质理论和维果茨基的“头脑中的他人”概念来理解霸权男性气质是如何在做爱过程中再现的。这项研究是基于对13名美国异性恋年轻男性的定性访谈，询问他们在性行为中的想法。年轻的异性恋男性产生了一种男性话语，支持异性恋的主导结构，根据抽象和真实的男性参照群体的想象和预期反应来监测他们的性行为。分析显示，男性在性行为中描述的想法使性行为像工作一样，记住各种其他人，一些人实际上在等待性的消息，还有一些男性气概的抽象表现。男性报告说，他们经常根据女性的快乐表现进行自我评价，例如尖叫，从不被认为是不真实的，或者根本不被认为是表演。当男人描述为了亲密而“放下男子气概”时，关于男子气概的想法并不存在于亲密时刻。
Very little research has examined what goes on in the minds of young men during sex. Such an exploration might reveal gender-normative discourses as well as challenges to such. This discourse analysis understands internal speech as that which both instantiates status quo ideals of masculinity and which challenges them. We use theories of hegemonic masculinity and Vygotskyan notions of "others in the head" to understand how hegemonic masculinity is reproduced during the act of having sex. This study is based on qualitative interviews with thirteen heterosexual young adult US men asking what goes through their mind during sex. Young heterosexual men produce a masculinity discourse that supports dominant constructions of heterosexuality, monitoring their sexual behaviors based on imagined and expected reactions of abstract and very real male reference groups. The analysis shows men describing thoughts during sex that make sex like work, keeps in mind a variety of other people, some literally awaiting news of the sex, and some abstract representations of masculinity. Men report a constant self-evaluation based on women's performances of pleasure, for example, screaming, never construed as inauthentic, or as a performance at all. Thoughts about masculinity were not present in intimate moments when men described a "letting go of masculinity" in order to be intimate.