The interface of sexuality and gender with mature minor: Ethical considerations and a case illustration.

After the publication of his pioneering book Sexual Excitement in 1979, Robert Stoller devoted the last 12 years of his life to the study of the pornographic film industry. To do so, he conducted an ethnographic study of people working in the industry in order to find out how it produced ‘perverse fantasies’ that successfully communicated sexual excitement to other people. In the course of his investigation he observed and interviewed those involved in the making of pornographic films. He hypothesized that the ‘scenarios’ developed and performed by people in the porn industry were based on their own perverse fantasies and their frustrations, injuries and conflicts over sexuality and gender; and that the porn industry had developed a systematic method and accumulated a sophisticated body of knowledge about the production of sexual excitement. This paper explores Stoller's theses and shows how they fared in his investigation.

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BOOK REVIEW: Joy Damousi.DEPRAVED AND DISORDERLY: FEMALE CONVICTS, SEXUALITY AND GENDER IN COLONIAL AUSTRALIA. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Victorian Studies ◽

10.2979/vic.1999.42.4.696 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 42 (4) ◽

pp. 696-698

Author(s):

Judith A. Allen

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Sexuality And Gender ◽

Female Convicts ◽

And Gender

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780190857790.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Patrick Colm Hogan

Keyword(s):

Queer Theory ◽

Social Constructionism ◽

The Other ◽

Sexual Identities ◽

The Third ◽

Sexuality And Gender ◽

And Gender ◽

Sexual Part ◽

The One ◽

And Behavior

The introduction first sets out some preliminary definitions of sex, sexuality, and gender. It then turns from the sexual part of Sexual Identities to the identity part. A great deal of confusion results from failing to distinguish between identity in the sense of a category with which one identifies (categorial identity) and identity in the sense of a set of patterns that characterize one’s cognition, emotion, and behavior (practical identity). The second section gives a brief summary of this difference. The third and fourth sections sketch the relation of the book to social constructionism and queer theory, on the one hand, and evolutionary-cognitive approaches to sex, sexuality, and gender, on the other. The fifth section outlines the value of literature in not only illustrating, but advancing a research program in sex, sexuality, and gender identity. Finally, the introduction provides an overview of the chapters in this volume.

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Research on Diversity in Sexual Identities

The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190673741.013.28 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 380-396

Author(s):

Pawan Singh

Keyword(s):

Sexual Behavior ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Social Identities ◽

First Century ◽

Sexual Identities ◽

Alternative Sexualities ◽

Sexuality And Gender ◽

Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽

Global Diffusion ◽

And Gender

If the elaboration of LGB identities is predicated on the development of binary sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries around normal and abnormal, heterosexual and homosexual, or Western and non-Western, research at the dawn of the twenty-first century has turned decidedly to the fluidity of sexuality and the various ways that sexual behavior is situated in social relationships and as social identities. This chapter turns to the persistence of alternative sexualities outside of or beyond the construction LGB, interrogating the links between sexuality and gender, the various reactions to the global diffusion of homosexuality (and homophobia) as cultural forms predicated on Western binaries, and the possibilities inherent in a world of diversely constituted sexualities.

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‘You're not sure that you are gay yet’: The perpetuation of the ‘phase’ in the lives of young disabled LGBT + people

Sexualities ◽

10.1177/1363460719842135 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 516-529 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Alex Toft ◽

Anita Franklin ◽

Emma Langley

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Gender Identity ◽

Detailed Analysis ◽

Social Structures ◽

Authentic Identity ◽

Sexuality And Gender ◽

Nuanced Understanding ◽

Lgbt People ◽

And Gender ◽

Identity Shifts

Contemporary discourse on sexuality presents a picture of fluidity and malleability, with research continuing to frame sexuality as negotiable, within certain parameters and social structures. Such investigation is fraught with difficulties, due in part to the fact that as one explores how identity shifts, language terms such as ‘phase’ emerge conjuring images of a definitive path towards an end-goal, as young people battle through a period of confusion and emerge at their true or authentic identity. Seeing sexuality and gender identity as a phase can delegitimise and prevent access to support, which is not offered due to the misconception that it is not relevant and that one can grow out of being LGBT+. This article explores the lives of disabled LGBT + young people from their perspective, using their experiences and stories to explore their identities and examine how this links to the misconception of their sexuality and gender as a phase. Taking inspiration from the work of scholars exploring sexual and gender identity, and sexual storytelling; the article is framed by intersectionality which allows for a detailed analysis of how identities interact and inform, when used as an analytic tool. The article calls for a more nuanced understanding of sexuality and gender in the lives of disabled LGBT + young people, which will help to reduce inequality and exclusion.

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