Matthew Ezzell
Biographic Data
| ID | 225670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Ezzell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Ezzell |
| SIGNATURE | EZZELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4021-392X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| 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 …
Personal Beliefs and Professional Realities: A Mixed-Methods Study of Child Sexual Abuse Workers’ Perspectives on Pornography
Digital pornography is pervasive in children’s lives and a significant factor in the cycle of child sexual abuse (CSA). Using a partially mixed-methods design, this study draws primarily on semi-structured interviews with 50 experienced frontline professionals who work with cases of child sexual abuse. This qualitative data are supplemented by survey data, including the Attitudes Toward Pornography Scale, to contextualize patterns in participants…
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…
Things Will Be Better in the Future! Emotion Work and Heterosexism in Parent–LGB Child Relationships
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) people in the United States have achieved several important legal and social gains in the recent past. These achievements can be seen in the legalizing of same-sex marriage, nationwide access to adoption, and more Gay–Straight Alliances. It is also the case that more LGBTQ+ people are maintaining relationships with their parents after coming out. However, these advances often obscure the real…
Palliative Emotion Work: Preserving Parent-LGB Child Relationships in an Age Of “Incomplete Acceptance
Despite the gains achieved by the gay rights movement, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LBG) people still face discrimination. LGB acceptance in this context is incomplete. Although familial rejection upon coming out is less common than it was previously, many LGB individuals experience acceptance that is only partial. Drawing on in-depth interviews, we analyze the emotion work used by parents and their LGB adult children to navigate and maintain fami…
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) …
Getting the Story Right: A Response to “The Feminist Ethnographer’s Dilemma
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)…
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)…
Getting the Story Right: A Response to “The Feminist Ethnographer’s Dilemma
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…
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)…
Getting the Story Right: A Response to “The Feminist Ethnographer’s Dilemma
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) …
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…
Palliative Emotion Work: Preserving Parent-LGB Child Relationships in an Age Of “Incomplete Acceptance
Despite the gains achieved by the gay rights movement, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LBG) people still face discrimination. LGB acceptance in this context is incomplete. Although familial rejection upon coming out is less common than it was previously, many LGB individuals experience acceptance that is only partial. Drawing on in-depth interviews, we analyze the emotion work used by parents and their LGB adult children to navigate and maintain fami…
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 …
Personal Beliefs and Professional Realities: A Mixed-Methods Study of Child Sexual Abuse Workers’ Perspectives on Pornography
Digital pornography is pervasive in children’s lives and a significant factor in the cycle of child sexual abuse (CSA). Using a partially mixed-methods design, this study draws primarily on semi-structured interviews with 50 experienced frontline professionals who work with cases of child sexual abuse. This qualitative data are supplemented by survey data, including the Attitudes Toward Pornography Scale, to contextualize patterns in participants…
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…
Things Will Be Better in the Future! Emotion Work and Heterosexism in Parent–LGB Child Relationships
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) people in the United States have achieved several important legal and social gains in the recent past. These achievements can be seen in the legalizing of same-sex marriage, nationwide access to adoption, and more Gay–Straight Alliances. It is also the case that more LGBTQ+ people are maintaining relationships with their parents after coming out. However, these advances often obscure the real…
Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (5 works) · Pornography (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Poison control (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Aggression (2 works)