Matthew B Ezzell
Biographic Data
| ID | 222777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew B Ezzell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew B |
| FAMILY NAME | Ezzell |
| SIGNATURE | EZZELL M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pornography Use and Sexual Well-Being: Exploring Gender Differences Among Mexican Young Adults
Although pornography use has risen globally, research on its psychological and relational correlates remains centered in Western contexts. This exploratory study examines how pornography use relates to sexual beliefs and behaviors among Mexican young adults, expanding prior research into a Latin American context. Utilizing sexual script theory, which highlights the pathways of sexual learning, often highly gendered in nature, we examined whether …
Child Advocacy Workers’ Accounts of the Connections Between Pornography and Child Sexual Abuse
This study analyzes the perspectives of support providers to survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) on the potential links between pornography and the sexual abuse of children. Drawing from fifty interviews, eight focus group discussions, and post-interview surveys with frontline child advocacy support professionals from various backgrounds and settings, each with at least five years of experience in the field, this paper presents a conceptual mod…
Pornography Use and Sexual Objectification of Others
Researchers have demonstrated associations between use of pornography and sexual objectification of women. We examine whether self-reported preference for degrading pornography moderated the relation between use frequency and sexual objectification of others. Participants were 1,342 heterosexual women and men residing in the United States. In women and men, pornography use frequency was associated with the sexual objectification of others, even a…
Methodological Impression Management in Ethnographic Research
In this article, we contend that turning a sharp dramaturgical lens on the dynamics of fieldwork clarifies a number of longstanding ethical challenges in ethnography-challenges that have shifted and deepened in the new technological landscape in which ethnographers work. We encourage fieldworkers to adopt an intentional approach to what we call methodological impression management to navigate the research process more strategically. Drawing on ou…
Naked Aggression: The Meaning and Practice of Ejaculation on a Woman’s Face
Based on in-depth interviews with 16 heterosexual men, this study focuses on participants' meaning-making surrounding a common and controversial sexual act in pornography: ejaculation on a woman's face (EOWF). We analyze the ways that male consumers decoded EOWF and the ways that EOWF, as a sexual script, was included in the men's accounts of their sexual desires and practices. The majority of the men decoded EOWF through the preferred (encoded) …
Pornography and the Male Sexual Script: An Analysis of Consumption and Sexual Relations
Opposing “both sides”: Rhetoric, reproductive rights, and control of a campus women's center
I'm in Control: Compensatory Manhood in a Therapeutic Community
Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews, this article analyzes the ways that male residents in a drug treatment program signified a masculine self through compensatory manhood acts. I analyze four strategies of identity work that men used during group accountability sessions called 'games': (1) signifying masculinity through aggression; (2) subordinating women and nonconventional men; (3) calling others to account as men; and (4)…
Barbie Dolls' on the Pitch: Identity Work, Defensive Othering, and Inequality in Women's Rugby
This paper analyzes strategies used by women in a collegiate, male-defined sport (rugby) to deal with identity dilemmas. Players challenged conventional notions of passive femininity through tough play, yet encountered sexist and homophobic stigma from outsiders. Rather than resisting and rejecting the power of this stigma, they engaged in defensive othering—subordinates distancing themselves from other subordinates and reinforcing the legitimacy…
Barbie Dolls' on the Pitch: Identity Work, Defensive Othering, and Inequality in Women's Rugby
This paper analyzes strategies used by women in a collegiate, male-defined sport (rugby) to deal with identity dilemmas. Players challenged conventional notions of passive femininity through tough play, yet encountered sexist and homophobic stigma from outsiders. Rather than resisting and rejecting the power of this stigma, they engaged in defensive othering—subordinates distancing themselves from other subordinates and reinforcing the legitimacy…
I'm in Control: Compensatory Manhood in a Therapeutic Community
Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews, this article analyzes the ways that male residents in a drug treatment program signified a masculine self through compensatory manhood acts. I analyze four strategies of identity work that men used during group accountability sessions called 'games': (1) signifying masculinity through aggression; (2) subordinating women and nonconventional men; (3) calling others to account as men; and (4)…
Pornography and the Male Sexual Script: An Analysis of Consumption and Sexual Relations
Methodological Impression Management in Ethnographic Research
In this article, we contend that turning a sharp dramaturgical lens on the dynamics of fieldwork clarifies a number of longstanding ethical challenges in ethnography-challenges that have shifted and deepened in the new technological landscape in which ethnographers work. We encourage fieldworkers to adopt an intentional approach to what we call methodological impression management to navigate the research process more strategically. Drawing on ou…
Naked Aggression: The Meaning and Practice of Ejaculation on a Woman’s Face
Based on in-depth interviews with 16 heterosexual men, this study focuses on participants' meaning-making surrounding a common and controversial sexual act in pornography: ejaculation on a woman's face (EOWF). We analyze the ways that male consumers decoded EOWF and the ways that EOWF, as a sexual script, was included in the men's accounts of their sexual desires and practices. The majority of the men decoded EOWF through the preferred (encoded) …
Pornography Use and Sexual Objectification of Others
Researchers have demonstrated associations between use of pornography and sexual objectification of women. We examine whether self-reported preference for degrading pornography moderated the relation between use frequency and sexual objectification of others. Participants were 1,342 heterosexual women and men residing in the United States. In women and men, pornography use frequency was associated with the sexual objectification of others, even a…
Opposing “both sides”: Rhetoric, reproductive rights, and control of a campus women's center
Barbie Dolls' on the Pitch: Identity Work, Defensive Othering, and Inequality in Women's Rugby
This paper analyzes strategies used by women in a collegiate, male-defined sport (rugby) to deal with identity dilemmas. Players challenged conventional notions of passive femininity through tough play, yet encountered sexist and homophobic stigma from outsiders. Rather than resisting and rejecting the power of this stigma, they engaged in defensive othering—subordinates distancing themselves from other subordinates and reinforcing the legitimacy…
Opposing “both sides”: Rhetoric, reproductive rights, and control of a campus women's center
I'm in Control: Compensatory Manhood in a Therapeutic Community
Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews, this article analyzes the ways that male residents in a drug treatment program signified a masculine self through compensatory manhood acts. I analyze four strategies of identity work that men used during group accountability sessions called 'games': (1) signifying masculinity through aggression; (2) subordinating women and nonconventional men; (3) calling others to account as men; and (4)…
Naked Aggression: The Meaning and Practice of Ejaculation on a Woman’s Face
Based on in-depth interviews with 16 heterosexual men, this study focuses on participants' meaning-making surrounding a common and controversial sexual act in pornography: ejaculation on a woman's face (EOWF). We analyze the ways that male consumers decoded EOWF and the ways that EOWF, as a sexual script, was included in the men's accounts of their sexual desires and practices. The majority of the men decoded EOWF through the preferred (encoded) …
Pornography and the Male Sexual Script: An Analysis of Consumption and Sexual Relations
Methodological Impression Management in Ethnographic Research
In this article, we contend that turning a sharp dramaturgical lens on the dynamics of fieldwork clarifies a number of longstanding ethical challenges in ethnography-challenges that have shifted and deepened in the new technological landscape in which ethnographers work. We encourage fieldworkers to adopt an intentional approach to what we call methodological impression management to navigate the research process more strategically. Drawing on ou…
Pornography Use and Sexual Objectification of Others
Researchers have demonstrated associations between use of pornography and sexual objectification of women. We examine whether self-reported preference for degrading pornography moderated the relation between use frequency and sexual objectification of others. Participants were 1,342 heterosexual women and men residing in the United States. In women and men, pornography use frequency was associated with the sexual objectification of others, even a…
Pornography Use and Sexual Well-Being: Exploring Gender Differences Among Mexican Young Adults
Although pornography use has risen globally, research on its psychological and relational correlates remains centered in Western contexts. This exploratory study examines how pornography use relates to sexual beliefs and behaviors among Mexican young adults, expanding prior research into a Latin American context. Utilizing sexual script theory, which highlights the pathways of sexual learning, often highly gendered in nature, we examined whether …
Child Advocacy Workers’ Accounts of the Connections Between Pornography and Child Sexual Abuse
This study analyzes the perspectives of support providers to survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) on the potential links between pornography and the sexual abuse of children. Drawing from fifty interviews, eight focus group discussions, and post-interview surveys with frontline child advocacy support professionals from various backgrounds and settings, each with at least five years of experience in the field, this paper presents a conceptual mod…
Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (5 works) · Pornography (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Poison control (3 works)