“Are you gay or do you do gay?” Subjectivities in “gay” stories on the Persian sexblog shahvani.com

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arash Guitoo
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
Traditional Understanding ◽  
Modern Thinking ◽  
Do So

Abstract The main goal of this study is to demonstrate the influence of local-traditional perceptions of sexuality in the construction of subjectivity among men involved in same-sex sexual practices in contemporary Iran. In order to do so, I shall briefly outline some essential features of the local-traditional understanding of sexuality, which I consider to be epistemologically and ontologically different from the modern concept of human sexuality. Subsequently, the continuity of the local-traditional understanding of sexuality in the identity construction of those individuals involved in same-sex sexual practices will be demonstrated through an inquiry on contemporary pornographic stories written by users of an online platform with erotic and pornographic content. I will argue that the perception of and the explanation for same-sex desire as well as the categorisations of subjects found in these stories point to the predominance of local-traditional patterns of thought in the imagination of the authors of these stories. However, it will also be demonstrated that the modern idea of sexuality is present among some other users of this platform, whose modern worldview is in conflict and competition with the local-traditional views on sexuality. This conflict is best illustrated in the commentary sections of the stories on this website, where modern-thinking users question the “truth” of the epistemology behind these local-traditional narratives. This modern users’ criticism of the local-traditional view on same-sex desire shall be addressed in the last part of the paper.

Ellis, Havelock (1859–1939)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Margaret Sanger ◽  
Open Marriage

Henry Havelock Ellis was a pioneer of sexology, the scientific study of human sexuality. As he details in his memoir My Life (1939), he grew up in South London, England, and had an open marriage with Edith Ellis (née Lees) (1861–1916), who was a lesbian. Ellis is best known for his seven-volume series, Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897–1928). The earliest of these volumes, a study of (mostly male) same-sex behaviors entitled Sexual Inversion (inversion being Ellis’s preferred term for "homosexuality," a term he disliked) appended writings by poet and sexologist J. A. Symonds (1840–1893). The book was banned in Britain on grounds of obscenity, forcing Ellis to publish all further writings in the United States. Ellis was an early theorist of what he termed "erotism," developing influential concepts and theories regarding auto-erotism, sadism, masochism, and fetishism. Ellis participated, with Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902) and Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), in the burgeoning study of non-normative sexual practices, which he grouped under the umbrella term "erotic symbolism" (Ellis cited in Schaffner: 99). Suggesting that "abnormal" expressions of sexuality were congenital and harmless, Ellis advocated for the reform of laws that criminalized acts of "inversion" (homosexual acts) in public and private. A proponent of eugenics, Ellis also shared a long-standing friendship with American contraceptive-rights leader Margaret Sanger.

My questions about emotionally focused couple therapy (EFT) and a few answers

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
Anne Power
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Heterosexual Couple ◽  
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy ◽  
Emotionally Focused ◽  
Do So

This article provides a brief overview of emotionally focused couple therapy (EFT) along with some reservations about the method. The article considers questions and critiques which are often raised about the model and does so from the point of view of a practitioner new to the method, who has become convinced of the value of the approach whilst not wanting to jettison an object relations understanding. The segregation between different groups of attachment researchers and practitioners is noted. To provide variation I occasionally use the term "marital" but I do so loosely, referring to a couple bond rather than to a wedded pair. The systemic pattern between a pursuer and a withdrawer which is discussed here could refer to a same-sex or a heterosexual couple, despite the different gender alignments which operate in each case.

scholarly journals Risk, chance and danger in Classical Greek writing on battle

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Roel Konijnendijk
Keyword(s):  
Human Agency ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Random Chance ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Do So

AbstractThis article highlights two aspects of the language used in Classical Greek literary sources to discuss pitched battle. First, the sources regularly use unqualified forms of the verb kinduneuein, “to take a risk,” when they mean fighting a battle. They do so especially in contexts of deliberation about the need to fight. Second, they often describe the outcome of major engagements in terms of luck, fate, and random chance, at the explicit expense of human agency. Taken together, these aspects of writing on war suggest that pitched battle was seen as an inherently risky course of action with unacceptably unpredictable results, which was therefore best avoided. Several examples show that the decision to fight was indeed evaluated in such terms. This practice casts further doubt on the traditional view that Greek armies engaged in pitched battles as a matter of principle.

Tragedies of Communion: Seeking Reconciliation amid Colonial Legacies

2015 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-412
Author(s):  
Ross Kane
Keyword(s):  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Global South ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
The Right ◽  
White Gaze

In seeking justice for LGBT persons, many Episcopalians have found ourselves in significant moral tragedies over recent decades. Support for same-sex relationships often emerged from a concern to stand up for the marginalized and to be “on the right side of history.” At the same time, however, we inadvertently alienated many of those historically marginalized in global Anglican conversations, specifically those in the global South. The content and form of the Episcopal Church's public statements in Anglican debates over human sexuality proved subtly—and usually unintentionally—neocolonial. The content of the debate privileged a specifically Western discourse based in the designation of homosexuality, while the form of the debate often resembled an abstracted “white gaze.” In seeking a path to reconciliation, the essay concludes by engaging H. Richard Niebuhr's thought, suggesting that he enables us to conceive how we ended up in such tragedies and offers a means to reconciliation by way of repentance.

Who's Zoomin’ Who? A Feminist, Queer Content Analysis of “Interdisciplinary” Human Sexuality Textbooks

Hypatia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Myerson ◽  
Sara L. Crawley ◽  
Erica Hesch Anstey ◽  
Justine Kessler ◽  
Cara Okopny
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Practices

Hundreds of thousands of students in introductory human sexuality classes read textbooks whose covert ideology reinforces dominant heteronormative narratives of sexual dimorphism, male hegemony, and heteronormativity. As such, the process of scientific discovery that proposes to provide description of existing sexual practices, identities, and physiohgies instead succeeds in cultural prescription. This essay provides a feminist, queer content analysis of such textbooks to illuminate their implicit narratives and provide suggestions for writing more feminist, queer-friendly texts.

scholarly journals Anusocratie? Freemasonry, sexual transgression and illicit enrichment in postcolonial Africa

Africa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (5) ◽  
pp. 831-851
Author(s):  
Peter Geschiere ◽  
Rogers Orock
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Sexual Transgression ◽  
Postcolonial Africa ◽  
Anal Penetration ◽  
Sex Practices

AbstractCameroonians recently invented a new word to characterize the state of their country: anusocratie (the rule of the anus). This became central in the moral panic from 2000 onwards over a supposed proliferation of homosexuality. Anusocratie links such same-sex practices to illicit enrichment by the national elites and their involvement with secret associations of Western provenance, such as Freemasonry, Rosicrucians and the Illuminati. This article tries to unravel this conceptual knot of homosexuality, the occult (Freemasonry) and illicit enrichment: first, by historicizing it. Of interest in the Cameroonian case is the fact that a similar link is mentioned in one of the first ethnographies, Günther Tessmann's Die Pangwe. Freemasonry is clearly a colonial imposition on the country, but the link between same-sex practices and enrichment has a longer history. Second, a comparison with similar ideas elsewhere on the continent can also open up wider perspectives. The link with illicit enrichment does not figure in classical conceptions of ‘homosexuality’ as developed in Europe, yet it strongly emerges from examples from all over Africa. Both Achille Mbembe and Joseph Tonda show that this image of the anus – anal penetration – articulates popular concerns about staggering inequalities. Yet, this aspect is ignored in debates about growing ‘homophobia’ in Africa. A confrontation with classical texts from Western queer theory (Bersani, Mieli) can help us discover other layers in African discourses, notably an emphasis on sexual diversity as an answer to homophobia. It can also serve to relativize the linking of sexual practices to sexual identities, which is still seen as self-evident in much queer theory of Western provenance.

The Response of the Late Victorian Feminist Press to Same-Sex Desire Controversies

2019 ◽  
pp. 542-554
Author(s):  
Molly Youngkin
Keyword(s):  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Editorial Bias ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
Amy Levy

Molly Youngkin’s essay investigates the heterosexism of a fin de siècle feminist newspaper, the Women’s Penny Paper (1894–99, later retitled the Women’s Herald and the Woman’s Signal), highlighting its treatment of three controversies: the Oscar Wilde trials, the death of poet Amy Levy, and the emergence of Sappho as a model of lesbian new womanhood. When the paper did address these controversies it ‘reshaped narratives about this [same-sex] desire to fit its own heterosexist agenda,’ responded in a disapproving way, or avoided a discussion of sexuality entirely (p. 543). The overall effect of this editorial bias was to pursue an ‘overarching agenda of advocating for heterosexual women’ and to reinforce social purity debates about ‘the effects of men’s sexual practices on heterosexual women and their families’ (p. 544). These feminist papers thus constructed the ‘other’ in ways that upheld restrictive conventions of race and sexuality while claiming to be vehicles of progressive thought.

From Simple Substance to Chemical Element

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-52
Author(s):  
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Periodic System ◽  
Chemical Element ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Simple Substance ◽  
System P ◽  
Conceptual Distinction ◽  
Definition Of

The introduction of the modern concept of chemical element has often been credited to Lavoisier. I will argue that despite the significant impact of the definition of elements as non-decompound bodies in Lavoisier’s “Elements of Chemistry,” this claim is misleading for at least three reasons. First, elements were already defined as residues of analysis prior to Lavoisier. Second, Lavoisier did not totally give up the traditional view of elements as constituents of all bodies. Third, the modern definition of chemical element implies a clear distinction between simple bodies and elements that was later introduced by Dmitri Mendeleev. I will outline the role of this conceptual distinction in Mendeleev’s process of classification of elements and symmetrically emphasize how the periodic system contributed to stabilize his notion of element as an individual defined by its position in the system. Thus the concept of element appears as both a precondition and a product of the construction of the periodic system.

scholarly journals HOMOSOSIALITAS DI PONDOK PESANTREN: STUDI KASUS DI PONDOK PESANTREN AS-SAKAN

HUMANIKA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Gian Nova Sudrajat Nur ◽  
Aquarini Priyatna ◽  
Mumuh Muhsin Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Sex Segregation ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Male Friendship ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
The Relationship

This paper discusses the homosexual practices among students at Pondok Pesantren As-Sakan. By using queer and homosociality theory, the paper will show that human sexuality is a very complex continuum, in which homosexual practices can be manifested in various forms. It will be shown that same-sex relationships are built on male friendship patterns among men, mentorship, entilement, competition between homosexuality and heterosexuality in intimate relationships so that there is a shift in the relationship in it. The practice of sex segregation which is part of the normative practice of the boarding school, manifested in, for example, activities, rules and sanctions, as well as facilities and infrastructure of the school, can be argued to have engendered practices that can be categorized as homosexual practices.

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