Offending Gender Being and Wanting in Male Same-Sex Desire

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4577291
AutoresMartin Stephen Frommer (Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen1
Número2
Páginas191-206
Fecha de publicación2000-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudies in Gender and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1524-0657 • E-ISSN: 1940-9206
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15240650109349155
OpenAlexW2021358905
IdiomaDE
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas4

The hegemony of gender in theorizing sexuality has made sexual orientation the principal organizer of erotic experience. This has resulted in a heterosexual-homosexual binary in which male hetero-sexuality is presumed to hinge on the eroticization of difference while male homosexuality has been Understood as a desire for likeness. In this essay, I argue that this view of male same-sex desire is forced by the dominant heterosexist discourse that splits being and wanting into mutually exclusive categories for its understanding of normative heterosexual desire. Examining the psychic consequences of this forced splitting in both straight and gay men, I argue that subjective experiences of difference are no less central to same-sex desire and that, in gay and straight contexts alike, defensive forms of complementarity often wreak havoc with the capacity to love

Epistemology · Hegemony · Heterosexuality · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Normative · Politics · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Sodomy · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology