Plastic Sexuality

The concept of plastic sexuality was developed theoretically by Anthony Giddens. “Plastic” refers to the malleability of erotic expression, in terms of both individual choice and frameworks of social norms. Flexible sexuality is argued to have emerged in the context of the social changes in late modernity and postmodernity. It stands in contrast to the features associated with modernist sexuality, conceptualized as fixed, by biology or by social norms. Fixed sexuality is associated with the binaries of modernity – either heterosexual or homosexual, either marital (legitimate) or extramarital (illegitimate), either committed or promiscuous, either normal (coital) or perverse (anal, autoerotic, sadomasochistic

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• Intimacy

  Lynn Jamieson•Intimacy•1998

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• Same Sex Intimacies

  Catherine Donovan, B Heaphy et al.•Same Sex Intimacies•2003

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• Commentaries on Seidman, Meeks and Traschen

  Open Access•Henning Bech•Sexualities•1999

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• Queer Frameworks and Queer Tendencies

  Open Access•Sasha Roseneil•Sociological Research Online•2000

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