How can a radical sexual play work in a “conservative” community?

2018 ◽  
pp. 123-143
Author(s):  
Qianting Ke
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Play

scholarly journals Play! A Special Issue

Sexualities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 136346072110136
Author(s):  
Caroline Bem ◽  
Susanna Paasonen
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Sexual Pleasure ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sexuality Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sexual Representation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexual Play ◽  
Sex Toys

Sexuality, as it relates to video games in particular, has received increasing attention over the past decade in studies of games and play, even as the notion of play remains relatively underexplored within sexuality studies. This special issue asks what shift is effected when sexual representation, networked forms of connecting and relating, and the experimentation with sexual likes are approached through the notion of play. Bringing together the notions of sex and play, it both foregrounds the role of experimentation and improvisation in sexual pleasure practices and inquires after the rules and norms that these are embedded in. Contributors to this special issue combine the study of sexuality with diverse theoretical conceptions of play in order to explore the entanglements of affect, cognition, and the somatic in sexual lives, broadening current understandings of how these are lived through repetitive routines and improvisational sprees alike. In so doing, they focus on the specific sites and scenes where sexual play unfolds (from constantly morphing online pornographic archives to on- and offline party spaces, dungeons, and saunas), while also attending to the props and objects of play (from sex toys and orgasmic vocalizations to sensation-enhancing chemicals and pornographic imageries), as well as the social and technological settings where these activities occur. This introduction offers a brief overview of the rationale of thinking sex in and as play, before presenting the articles that make up this special issue.

scholarly journals SPACE, PLACE AND LOCATION IN SEXUAL SOCIAL MEDIA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Sundén ◽  
Katrin Tiidenberg ◽  
Susanna Paasonen ◽  
Maria Vihlman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Sexual Expression ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Sexual Cultures ◽  
Sexual Play ◽  
The One ◽  
Group Sex ◽  
Physical Spaces

Contributing to the swiftly emerging field of the geographies of digital sexualities, this panel explores the geosocial and geopolitical dimensions of digital sexual cultures by zooming in on the connections between sexual practices, geographic imaginaries, and locally embedded social media platforms devoted to sexual expression. Building on case studies of an Estonian platform used primarily by those interested in group sex (LC, est. 2018), a Swedish platform preferred by BDSM practitioners (Darkside.se, est. 2003), and a Finnish platform for nude self-expression (Alastonsuomi.com, est. 2007) we show how these platforms contribute to and shape sexual geographies in digital and physical registers. On the one hand, these platforms operate as spatialized tools which put bodies in motion in the interest of hooking up. They function as digital compasses that allow for orientation of sexual desires in physical spaces. On the other hand, these platforms also assemble localized online places for flirtation, imagination, visibility, and appreciation, which interlink bodies with the visual pleasures and vulnerabilities of seeing and being seen. We approach questions of locatedness and place-making both through the regional and linguistic boundaries within which these platforms operate, as well as through our participants’ sense of comfort and investment in the local as a space of sexual play. As sexual content and communication are increasingly pushed out of large, U.S.-owned social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr, local and (to some extent) independent platforms where sexual expression is less regulated offer an interesting counterweight.

Two Cases of Transsexualism with Gonadal Dysgenesia

1971 ◽  
Vol 119 (550) ◽  
pp. 311-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Ionescu ◽  
C. Maximilian ◽  
A. Bucur
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Sexual Development ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Psychosexual Development ◽  
Hormonal Factors ◽  
Play Activity ◽  
Sexual Play

Most psychiatrists who have made a study of abnormal psychosexual development accept Money's postulate as to the manner in which heredity and education determine sexual development. This assumes that genetical and hormonal factors influence psychosexual development only through bodily shape, while sexual behaviour is learned like the native language. Nevertheless, Money himself raises the question as to whether patterns of sexual play, activity and distractibility in the two sexes are not elements of a strong genetical determinism.

Aggressive and Humiliating Sexual Play: Occurrence Rates and Discordance Between the Sexes

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (7) ◽  
pp. 2187-2200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menelaos Apostolou ◽  
Michalis Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Play

Children’s sexual play and behavior in pre-school settings: staff’s perceptions, reports, and responses

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 1329-1343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Lloyd Davies ◽  
Danya Glaser ◽  
Ruth Kossoff
Keyword(s):  
School Settings ◽  
Sexual Play ◽  
And Behavior

The Eyes of Anna Held: Sex and Sight in the Progressive Era

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-327
Author(s):  
David Monod
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Sexual Attitudes ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Sexual Play

The nineteenth century was an era of perceptual certitude. Scientists collected and cataloged, explorers mapped and charted, artists rendered what they observed. The empirical approach to perception was grounded in the ideas that God had created an orderly and rational world and that the senses connected people to the intrinsic meanings of the things they contacted and observed. But by the 1890s, uncertainty about the reality of what people perceived was beginning to transform American popular culture. Among other things, the acceptance of perception as relative transformed attitudes to erotic displays and provided a foundation for the modernization of sexual attitudes. Anna Held was a prominent performer whose sexual play excited and challenged Progressive Era audiences. The public's response to her sexuality reveals the depth of the doubt that the questioning of Victorian certitude created. The progressive impulse, which sought to reaffirm certainty with regard to sexual identities and behaviors, can be seen as a reaction to the doubts that cultural modernists embraced and Anna Held's public enjoyed.

Adult Play

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley M. L. Brown ◽  
Jaakko Stenros
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Sexual Play ◽  
Adult Play

Welcome to the Adult Play Special Issue. In this introduction, we (the editors) explain the origin of the collection and our unique take on what adult play means as a term. Rather than be specifically about sexual play, the term adult is taken here to reference the age of players. The article included how adults play, what they play with, and when they play. This of course includes, but is not limited to, play of a sexual nature. We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed editing it.

Does breed affect sexual play in preweaning lambs?

2012 ◽  
Vol 106 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 103-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin T. Górecki ◽  
Agata Kiełtyka
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Play

scholarly journals Hanging, blowing, slamming and playing: Erotic control and overflow in a digital chemsex scene

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136346072096410
Author(s):  
Kristian Møller
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Play Theory ◽  
Crystal Meth ◽  
Social Scene ◽  
Sexual Play ◽  
The Way

Based on participant observation, this article details the use of methamphetamine (crystal meth) in a social scene mediated by a video conferencing service similar to Zoom. Taking an affective-materialist approach and applying concepts from play theory, it describes the visual erotic culture that emerges in the 100 simultaneous videos of drug-using people, mostly men. It details the scene’s modulation of temporality, how drug use is performed in relationship to numerous screens and the way ceremonialization counters the platformed deintensification. Finally, it discusses how digital chemsex encounters might overflow categories of gender and sexuality, and how the article may enrich the study of drugged sexual play.

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