Group Sex as Play

Rules and Transgression in Shared Non-monogamy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2409650
AutoresJ Tuomas Harviainen (0000-0002-6085-5663, Hanken School of Economics, autor correspondente), Katherine Frank (0000-0001-8875-6707)
Ano2018
Volume13
Fascículo3
Páginas220-239
Data de publicação2018-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGames and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1555-4120 • E-ISSN: 1555-4139
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1555412016659835
OpenAlexW2514849352
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas46

Drawing on ethnographic and interview data collected from the United States and Finland on lifestyle ("swinging") events, this article explores the implicit and explicit rules influencing negotiations for group sex as a type of play. Participants maintain a sense of freedom and spontaneity while acting within situational constraints-ethical expectations, preexplicated rules, implicit rules, and complex negotiations that occur during the play itself either openly or more subtly. Because it has implications for the participants' everyday lives, lifestyle group sex is a phenomenon on the border between games and adult play. Through an analysis of the rules and social contracts arising in group sex, we demonstrate how participants learn to read interactions at group sex events in the way that players learn game systems and how they can and do become "good players" in such situations

Epistemology · Ethnography · Group (periodic table · Negotiation · Phenomenon · Situational ethics · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology