Desire/Desirability

Gender Asymmetries in Heterosexual Erotic Attention

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ID2049682
AuthorsGabrielle Lafleur (0000-0002-1944-3798, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick NJ USA, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume45
Issue1
Pages72-96
Publication date2022-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSymbolic Interaction (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0195-6086 • E-ISSN: 1533-8665
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/symb.555
OpenAlexW3185154230
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited45

This article proposes to synthesize sexual social constructionism, radical feminism, and cognitive sociology in order to identify and analyze 'gender asymmetries' in heterosexual erotic attention. These gender asymmetries are evident in widely circulating androcentric imagery and prevailing linguistic conventions used to denote heterosexual activity, in erotic schematizations that differentially ascribe erotic meaning (and thereby erotic attention) to bodies that have been classified as 'female,' and in interactional dynamics and constructions of sexual-selfhood that perceptually foreground the desires and somatic sensations (subjective embodiment) of men and background those of women. Irreconcilable accounts of sexual interactions from the #MeToo Movement are cited to illustrate the analytic purchase of the proposed conceptual framework for clarifying issues of pleasure parity and consent

Cognition · Feminism · Heterosexuality · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Pleasure · Psychoanalysis · Sexual attraction · Sexual behavior · Sexual desire · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology

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