Masculine Purity and “Gentlemen's Mischief”: Sexual Exchange and Prostitution between Russian Men, 1861-1941

Slavic Review ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Healey
Keyword(s):  
Young Men ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Male Homosexual ◽  
Sexual Exchange

Sexual exchanges between men in modernizing Russia can be a window on the comparatively unexplored problem of Russian masculinities. Traditional forms of mutual male intimacy occurred within the patriarchal structures of gentry and merchant households, workshops and bathhouses. Arteli of peasant bathhouse attendants engaged in “sodomy” with clients, observing customary work practices (zemliachestvo, krugovaia poruka). By the 1890s an urban sexual marketplace characterized Russia's male homosexual subculture. Sexually knowing youths and men systematically offered sex for cash to “pederasts”, or tetki, who were perceived as predominantly attracted to men. After 1917, Bolsheviks evaluated same-sex love not through a single prism but by class and national contexts. Russia's male homosexual subculture was mistrusted in part because it was a clandestine sexual market, creating suspicious dependency relationships and threatening the “purity” of “innocent” young men.

Masters of Craft

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Ocejo
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Young Men ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Downward Mobility ◽  
Postindustrial City ◽  
New Form ◽  
Cultural Repertoires

In today's new economy—in which “good” jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual-labor occupations as careers. This book looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering. The book takes readers into the lives and workplaces of these people to examine how they are transforming these once-undesirable jobs into “cool” and highly specialized upscale occupational niches—and in the process complicating our notions about upward and downward mobility through work. It shows how they find meaning in these jobs by enacting a set of “cultural repertoires,” which include technical skills based on a renewed sense of craft and craftsmanship and an ability to understand and communicate that knowledge to others, resulting in a new form of elite taste-making. The book describes the paths people take to these jobs, how they learn their chosen trades, how they imbue their work practices with craftsmanship, and how they teach a sense of taste to their consumers. The book provides new insights into the stratification of taste, gentrification, and the evolving labor market in today's postindustrial city.

scholarly journals Coercive Control: Update and Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Stark ◽  
Marianne Hester
Keyword(s):  
Problem Area ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Coercive Control ◽  
Male Homosexual ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Relationship

This article reviews the background, introduction, and critical response to new criminal offenses of coercive control in England/Wales and Scotland. How the new Scottish offense is implemented will determine whether it can overcome the shortcomings of the English law. We then review new evidence on four dimensions of coercive control: the relationship between “control” and “violence,” coercive control in same-sex couples, measuring coercive control, and children’s experience of coercive control. Coercive control is not a type of violence. Indeed, level of control predicts a range of negative outcomes heretofore associated with physical abuse, including post-separation violence and sexual assault; important differences in coercive control dynamics distinguish male homosexual from lesbian couples; measuring coercive control requires innovative ways of aggregating and categorizing data; and how children experience coercive control is a problem area that offers enormous promise for the years ahead.

Love, Respect, and Masculinity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Margaretten
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Support ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Domestic Production ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Sexual Exchange ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Organizing Principles

This chapter examines nakana from the perspective of the Point Place males. Whereas the females link nakana to material goods, a shared living space, and emotional support, the young men of Point Place conceptualize it through another ideological framework. They associate nakana with the domestic production of patriarchal control: to obedience, discipline, and respect. For them, the organizing principles of nakana relate not to models of sexual exchange, but rather to models of masculinity, which they enact as strategies of meaningful survival on the streets. The chapter studies the presence of two dominant masculinities—the isoka and umnumzana—that take shape within Point Place. Both masculinities uphold patriarchy, not through the use of direct force, but through the coercive powers of consent.

An exploratory study of exclusively heterosexual, primarily heterosexual, and mostly heterosexual young men

Sexualities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 16-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ritch C Savin-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Gender Nonconformity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Mostly Heterosexual ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Additional Point

Kinsey argued that sexuality exists along a continuum from exclusive attraction to one sex or the other, with degrees of gradations of nonexclusivity in-between. Other than bisexuality and, recently, mostly heterosexuality, possibilities within the nonexclusive spectrum are seldom investigated, especially among men. In two studies presented here, an additional point, primarily heterosexual, in-between exclusively heterosexual and mostly heterosexual, is proposed. The three were distinguished among 92 young men based on self-reports of three sexual indicators (attraction, fantasy, genital contact); two romantic indicators (infatuation, romantic relationship); and sexual identity. Exclusively heterosexuals differed from the other two in having lower levels of pupil dilation to same-sex (but not other-sex) pornographic stimuli and of gender nonconformity, a proxy for sexual orientation. Primarily and mostly heterosexuals did not differ from each other on either measure but did differ in the extent to which mostly heterosexuals were considerably more likely to endorse same-sex sexuality. Results supported the uniqueness of mostly heterosexual men and, descriptively, primarily heterosexual men. The second longitudinal study found the exclusively heterosexual point was the most stable. Across the three, there was greater movement toward same-sex than other-sex sexuality. This is interpreted in light of the increasing acceptance of same-sex sexuality within the millennial generation.

Young Men's Disclosure of Same Sex Behaviors to Healthcare Providers and the Impact on Health: Results from a US National Sample of Young Men Who Have Sex with Men

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 342-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan W. Stupiansky ◽  
Adrian Liau ◽  
Joshua Rosenberger ◽  
Susan L. Rosenthal ◽  
Wanzhu Tu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Young Men ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Sex Behaviors ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Violence and Victimization in Interactions Between Male Sex Workers and Male Clients in Mombasa, Kenya

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052092236
Author(s):  
Pablo K. Valente ◽  
Alberto Edeza, BS ◽  
Tsitsi B. Masvawure ◽  
Theo G. M. Sandfort ◽  
Peter B. Gichangi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Peer Networks ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Male Sex Workers ◽  
Male Clients ◽  
Sexual Exchange ◽  
Male Sex ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Sex Practices

Male sex workers (MSWs) and male clients (MCMs) who engage their services face increased vulnerability to violence in Kenya, where same-sex practices and sex work are criminalized. However, little is known about how violence might arise in negotiations between MSWs and MCMs. This study explored the types of victimization experienced by MSWs and MCMs, the contexts in which these experiences occurred, and the responses to violence among these groups. We conducted in-depth interviews with 25 MSWs and 11 MCMs recruited at bars and clubs identified by peer sex worker educators as “hotspots” for sex work in Mombasa, Kenya. Violence against MSWs frequently included physical or sexual assault and theft, whereas MCMs’ experiences of victimization usually involved theft, extortion, or other forms of economic violence. Explicitly negotiating the price for the sexual exchange before having sex helped avoid conflict and violence. For many participants, guesthouses that were tolerant of same-sex encounters were perceived as safer places for engaging in sex work. MSWs and MCMs rarely reported incidents of violence to the police due to fear of discrimination and arrests by law enforcement agents. Some MSWs fought back against violence enacted by clients or tapped into peer networks to obtain information about potentially violent clients as a strategy for averting conflicts and violence. Our study contributes to the limited literature examining the perspectives of MSWs and MCMs with respect to violence and victimization, showing that both groups are vulnerable to violence and in need of interventions to mitigate violence and protect their health. Future interventions should consider including existing peer networks of MSWs in efforts to prevent violence in the context of sex work. Moreover, decriminalizing same-sex practices and sex work in Kenya may inhibit violence against MSWs and MCMs and provide individuals with safer spaces for engaging in sex work.

Unspeakable Desires

2015 ◽  
pp. 192-210
Author(s):  
Kate Flint
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Male Homosexual ◽  
Verbal Form ◽  
Sex Attraction ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Changing Attitudes

This chapter explores how certain forms of desire are silenced by culture and convention, and how these desires, whilst they may be expressed through glance or action, can be difficult to express in verbal form. Chief among these desires are ones predicated on same-sex attraction, and both male homosexual and lesbian desires—and attitudes and legislation relating to them—are placed in the context of changing attitudes towards sexuality in Victorian society. The chapter also examines forms of desire that are manifested through such activities as flogging or the consumption of pornography. But the main emphasis falls on queer sexualities and relationships and on their expression in fiction and poetry. The idea that style itself may be understood as a form of queer expression is investigated, and the warning issued that we must be careful not to project our own twenty-first-century desires and forms of identification onto Victorian practices.

Beyond Brideshead: The Male Homoerotics of 1930s Oxford

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 821-856
Author(s):  
Ross Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Young Men ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Safe Haven ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
Queer History ◽  
The City

AbstractLooking beyond the notorious “Brideshead” aesthetes and homoeroticism of 1920s Oxford, this article explores the queer sensibilities of the university's male undergraduates and their associates through the 1930s. Steadily through the decade, Oxford's unique brand of queer aestheticism and same-sex love affairs became embroiled with wider debates about the hegemony of socialism and communism and the supposed degeneracy of standards at Oxford. At the same time, the assimilation of medicalized concepts of perversion and homosexuality increasingly made Oxford's aesthetes and same-sex love affairs objects of critical scrutiny, effeminophobia, and homophobia. For many of the university's queer male undergraduates, the Oxford University Dramatic Society provided a safe haven and a platform for queer expression both in Oxford and beyond. A group of images by the Russian émigré photographer Cyril Arapoff provides further insights into the male homoerotics of 1930s Oxford. Situated within the context of Arapoff's life in the city between 1933 and 1939, his extraordinary photographs of nude and seminude young men offer glimpses into the queer lives and loves at Oxford in a period when such experiences were rarely articulated in written form. The images include the spaces the young men inhabited and their interconnections to London's vibrantly queer dance and theater scene. Such insights help establish more firmly interwar Oxford as an important hub of queer modernism, with national and international import for the course of modern queer history.

scholarly journals Male Homosexual Identities, Relationships, and Practices among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men in Vietnam: Implications for HIV Prevention

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duc Anh Ngo ◽  
Michael W. Ross ◽  
Ha Phan ◽  
Eric A. Ratliff ◽  
Thang Trinh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Male Homosexual ◽  
Sex With Men

Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Anxieties: Middle-class males in western India and the correspondence inSamaj Swasthya, 1927–53

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 991-1034 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHRIKANT BOTRE ◽  
DOUGLAS E. HAYNES
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Western India ◽  
Sexual Knowledge ◽  
Same Sex

AbstractThis article examines letters written by young men to the Marathi-language journalSamaj Swasthyaand its editor, R. D. Karve, a major advocate of birth control and sex education in western India. The letters, and Karve's responses to them, constituted perhaps the earliest sex-advice column in Indian print media. We argue here that the correspondence provides a unique vehicle for understanding the forms of sexual knowledge held by middle-class males in mid-twentieth-century India as well as for appreciating their most significant sexual anxieties. The article analyses the concerns expressed in the letters about masturbation and seminal emissions, the nature of the female body and processes of conception, birth control and same-sex sexual practices. It particularly illuminates the ways in which the concept of modern conjugality pervaded the sexual understandings of the young men who wrote to Karve. It thus offers valuable insights into specifically sexual aspects of conjugality and masculinity—aspects that have previously been unexplored.

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