Created by god and wired to porn: Redemptive Masculinity and Gender Beliefs in Narratives of Religious Men's Pornography Addiction Recovery
Created by god and wired to porn: Redemptive Masculinity and Gender Beliefs in Narratives of Religious Men's Pornography Addiction Recovery
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10.1177/0891243220905815
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发表时间：
2020-04-01
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5.5
通讯作者：
Haltom, Trenton M.
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作者：
Burke, Kelsy;Haltom, Trenton M.
关于混合男性气质的文献表明，一些男性在管理男性气质的从属或矛盾形式的同时，仍然保持性别不平等并从中受益。根据对色情成瘾康复计划中的宗教参与者的 35 次深入定性访谈，我们通过说明混合男性气质如何通过有关性、性别和性行为的共享文化知识来运作，从而扩展了这一文献。我们发现参与者使用与宗教和科学相关的独特文化模式来解释上帝如何创造男人，使他们在生物学上“硬连线”地沉迷于色情成瘾。我们用“救赎性男性气质”这个词来描述一种混合型男性气质，它支持霸权男性气质和色情消费之间的文化联系，但允许宗教人士将他们避免色情作品描述为男性壮举。救赎的男子气概取决于对性别的特定信念，这为那些致力于克服色情成瘾的宗教人士提供了便利。我们展示了他们的故事如何强化男性和女性身体之间的本质差异，以保护宗教男性的利益和性表达。反过来，我们展示了混合男性气概如何涉及男性的性别灵活实践，以及这些如何最终强化对所谓“异性”的严格和僵化的信念。
The literature on hybrid masculinity suggests that some men manage subordinate or contradictory forms of masculinity while still maintaining and benefiting from gender inequality. Drawing from 35 in-depth qualitative interviews with religious participants in pornography addiction recovery programs, we expand this literature by illustrating how hybrid masculinity operates through shared cultural knowledge about sex, gender, and sexuality. We find that participants use distinct cultural schemas related to religion and science to explain how men are created by God to be biologically "hard-wired" for pornography addiction. We use the phrase redemptive masculinity to describe a type of hybrid masculinity that upholds the cultural association between hegemonic masculinity and pornography consumption, but allows religious men to describe their avoidance of pornography as a masculine feat. Redemptive masculinity depends upon particular beliefs about gender that give advantage to the religious men who work to overcome pornography addiction. We show how their stories reinforce essentialist differences between male and female bodies that protect the interests and sexual expressions of religious men. In turn, we show how hybrid masculinities may involve gender-flexible practices for men but also how these may ultimately reinforce strict and inflexible beliefs about so-called "opposite" sexes.