Gay male sex, carnal knowledge and realism in contemporary French cinema

Ambivalent Sexualities in a Transnational Context

Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities ◽

10.3167/jbsm.2020.010207 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 64-83

Author(s):

Victor Trofimov

Keyword(s):

Sex Workers ◽

Human Sexuality ◽

Sexual Scripts ◽

Sexual Script ◽

Social Spaces ◽

Male Sex Workers ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Gay Male ◽

Male Sex

Abstract In this article, I explore negotiations of sexualities among Romanian and Bulgarian migrant male sex workers in Berlin. After explaining the concept of sexual script, I argue that inasmuch as those sex workers work on the gay male scene but spend the rest of their daily lives within the broader Romanian and Bulgarian communities, they need to negotiate between the gay male and the heteropatriarchal sexual scripts, which are prevalent in these social spaces, respectively. I examine six strategies by means of which the sex workers surf the binarisms of the scripts and in so doing reveal the ambivalence and sociospatial situatedness of human sexuality.

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A Mass Doubling of Heroes: Post-human Objects of Queer Desire in Vladimir Sorokin and Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s 4

The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474405140.003.0009 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Alexandar Mihailovic

Keyword(s):

Elderly Women ◽

Fear Of Death ◽

Individual Autonomy ◽

Bread Dough ◽

Economic Changes ◽

Gay Male ◽

National Body ◽

Male Sex ◽

Pig Meat ◽

Cloned Pig

In their 2004 film 4, the contemporary Russian novelist and screenwriter Vladimir Sorokin and the filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky create a nightmare fantasy about the intersection of two seemingly unrelated processes of production. In Moscow, a new corrupt industry of processing chemically injected and possibly cloned pig meat and, in the countryside, a community of elderly women who create a series of eerie life-size dolls out of masticated bread dough. Both processes address anxieties about body boundaries being breached or invaded, with the national body becoming tainted or jammed up by what it ingests. The symbolic palette of 4 paints a picture of queer intimacy that knowingly embraces sterility, while also encoding gay male sex as emasculating and unclean. Within the film, the fear of death through feminisation is projected onto the portrayal of the economic changes that wreak havoc with individual autonomy.

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‘Strangled the Chicken’: The Spectacle of Gay Male Sex and the Incitement of its Discourse in Rope

INvoke ◽

10.29173/invoke48962 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

Author(s):

Victoria Romanik ◽

Mark Guerrero

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

The Public ◽

Gay Male ◽

Production Code ◽

Moral Landscape ◽

Sex And Sexuality ◽

History Of ◽

Male Sex ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Shed Light

In this paper, I explore discourses of gay male sex and homosexuality in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) as it situates within the highly-restrictive moral landscape of the Motion Picture Production code era. Although the restrictive economy surrounding these regulations had supposedly expurgated all discourses of sex and sexuality from the public sphere, I will draw on Foucault’s History of Sexuality (1984) to argue that this was not the case. Instead, I shed light on the paradox of censorship, by which the shrewd restriction of sexuality has transformed gay male sex into a topic of discussion. I then offer a critique of Hitchcock’s spectacularization of gay male sex, urging us to question how discourses of gay male sex are being constructed and who is constructing these discourses.

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Ondermyning van normatiwiteitsdimensies in die poësie van Loftus Marais: ’n Queer-teoretiese beskouing

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde ◽

10.17159/tl.v50i3.5113 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 50 (3) ◽

pp. 72-88

Author(s):

Neil Cochrane

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Cape Town ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Christian Faith ◽

Specific Reference ◽

Drag Queen ◽

Gay Male ◽

Specific Focus ◽

Male Sex ◽

Clear Shift

Although elements of queer experience exist in Afrikaans poetry since 2002, for example in the work of Hennie Aucamp andMarius Crous, a clear shift from gay to queer experience took place with the publication of Staan in die algemeen nader aan vensters ( “In general, stand close to the windows”, 2008) by Loftus Marais. With specific reference to his poetry, the article demonstrates how the eccentric, marginal and oppositional position of various queer subjects, for instance the female impersonator/drag queen, relates to the destabilization of specific dimensions of normativity: heteronormativity, Cape Town as urban space, gay masculinity, the soul//body binary, Christian faith, the gay sadomasochist and the representation of gay male sex in the poetry of Johann de Lange. These aspects are discussed within a queer theoretical framework with a specific focus on the views of queer theorist David Halperin.

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