Taking Control of Sex

Hegemonic Masculinity, Technology, and Internet Pornography

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2387906
AutoresSteve Garlick (0000-0001-5283-3301, University of Victoria, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen12
Número5
Páginas597-614
Fecha de publicación2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMen and Masculinities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1097-184X • E-ISSN: 1552-6828
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1097184x09341360
OpenAlexW2002140672
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas17

It is widely acknowledged that gender is a key category in pornography, yet the relation of the latter to contemporary masculinities remains relatively obscure. Although there is a substantial critical literature on the positioning and treatment of women in pornography, the connection between the consumption of pornographic images and the social construction of hegemonic masculinity has been more often presumed than examined. This lacuna becomes more apparent when juxtaposed with the profusion and proliferation of Internet porn in recent years. Rather than enter into existing antiporn or proporn debates, this article seeks to pose a different set of questions about the relationship between masculinity, technology, and pornography. It suggests that the Internet produces a qualitative change in the way in which viewers are affected by pornography and that this has implications for contemporary gender relations. Beyond men's control over women's bodies, Internet porn participates in the larger drama of a technological confrontation between men and nature-one in which control and the meaning of masculinity is perpetually at stake

Art · Drama · Hegemonic masculinity · Hegemony · Literature · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Pornography · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology