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Più maschi degli etero. Le maschilità nel lavoro sessuale tra uomini
No full textChi sono gli uomini che vendono sesso ad altri uomini? Quali maschilità costruiscono, mettono in scena, rivendicano? E in che modo il sex work diventa uno spazio di negoziazione dell’identità maschile? Questo libro, frutto di una ricerca qualitativa condotta in Italia e in Svezia, attraverso 45 interviste a sex worker uomini che operano online, propone un’analisi innovativa del lavoro sessuale maschile. Lontano da rappresentazioni vittimizzanti o stereotipate, il volume esplora la complessità delle esperienze, il ruolo centrale di internet e le molteplici configurazioni delle maschilità contemporanee. Il sex work maschile diventa così una lente per indagare dinamiche di potere, intimità, desiderio e identità. Il testo si propone come un contributo empirico alla comprensione del sex work maschile nei contesti occidentali. Con una prospettiva queer e sociologicamente informata, questo studio dà voce ai protagonisti di un fenomeno ancora poco conosciuto e spesso marginalizzato, offrendo nuove prospettive teoriche sul sesso, le sessualità e le maschilità nel mondo contemporaneo.Who are the men who sell sex to other men? What kinds of masculinities do they construct, perform, and negotiate? Moreover, how does sex work become a space for negotiating male identity? This book, the result of a qualitative study conducted in Italy and Sweden through 45 interviews with male sex workers who use the online space to find clients, offers an innovative analysis of male sex work. Instead of using classical victimization and stereotypical approaches, it explores the complexity of these experiences, the multiple configurations of contemporary masculinities, and the role of the internet. Male sex work thus becomes a lens through which to examine dynamics of power, intimacy, desire, and identity. The book makes a significant empirical contribution to the understanding of male sex work in Western countries. Adopting queer and sociological perspectives, this study gives voice to the male sex workers who remain largely unknown and often marginalized, offering new theoretical insights into sex, sexualities, and masculinities in our contemporary world
Becoming Male Sex Worker, Doing Masculinities. Socio-Sexual Interactions and Gender Production in Men Selling Sex to Men in Italy and Sweden
Full text linkAlthough masculinity is a powerful concept in both sociology and gender studies, previous research forgot to analyse sex work under this
perspective. Even though the actors involved are men, and previous studies have highlighted the importance of masculinity not only in the relation man-to-woman but also in the “gay world”, there is a lack of attention in male sex working. Then, the aim of this paper is to analyse sex work under the perspective of masculinity in order to understand what type of relationships are created between sex workers and their clients and which role it is played by masculinity, how the relation is shaped by it. Moreover, we explain how doing sex work is also a way to do masculinity, a mean through which sex workers can elevate themselves under different perspectives: socially, economically, and culturally. Thanks to a sample of 45 male sex workers interviewed between Italy and Stockholm and that use the internet as a mean to find clients, we show how the job of selling sex to other men cannot avoid the categories of masculinities. This is true for both “heterosexual” and gay escorts. At the same time, we also
find “space for resistance”, where some gay sex workers are able to establish relations that go beyond the standard concept of masculinit
MASCHILITÀ OMOSESSUALI TRA SESSO E AMICIZIA. COME LE ‘DATING APPS’ RISCRIVONO I COPIONI SESSUALI NEL XXI SECOLO
No full textThis paper analysis sexual scripts theory in relation to gay men courtship, love
relationships, and casual sex. The aim is to understand how gay masculinity is
evolving in the 21st Century. Previous research has reinforced the concept that
gay men follow heterosexual masculinity and scripts in their relationships with
other men. Here, analysing data from the most used gay dating app ‘Grindr’,
we try to understand the balance among the different needs gay men in Italy
express in their daily lives: from friendship to love, from casual sex to long-term
relationships. Indeed, applying the heterosexual cultural script to gay men is
problematic because hegemonic masculinity is also reinforced in gay
interactions instead of being contested. Gay sexuality means the construction
of hybrid relations: intimacy, trust, friendship, reciprocity, and sex merge
together in unprecedented ways
Male Sex Working and Masculinity: Finding ‘Check and Balance’ Between Stigmatisation and Homosexualisation
No full textAbstract in conference proceeding
Pratiche sessuali a “rischio” in un campione di lavoratori sessuali italiani. Dai copioni sessuali tradizionali all’attore sessuale neoliberale?
No full textIn this article, we deal with the so-called ‘risky sexual behaviours’ and the spread of HIV/AIDS among the community of MSM (men who have sex with other men). For a long time, both the sociological analysis and the medical and epidemiological approach studied the behaviour of the gay population as “inherently” more problematic in terms of spreading the human immunodeficiency virus. For these studies, even more dangerous are those men who sell sex and sexual services. Starting from a sample of twenty-one male sex workers in Italy and of the use or misuse of condoms during encounters with their male clients, this contribution will try to understand how ‘risky sexual practices’ (like barebacking or doing sex without a condom) are written and re-written. From the sexual script theory to the recent advancement in medicine in the fight against HIV/AIDS (like TasP and PrEP) that shape and reshape how sex is performed, moving from the “gay plague” to the “Truvada whore” and from traditional sexual scripts to the neoliberal sexual actor
SEX WORK IS (ALSO) A MALE THING. The long journey towards legitimisation
No full textThis chapter aims at re- shaping the representations, theories, rhetoric, organisation, and types of male sex work as a complex, uncomfortable, and controversial phenomenon located at the crossroads of masculinity and socio- sexual change – something in between traditional models, new configurations, and new normativities
Bianca Beccalli (1938-2024). Tra sociologia, femminismo e impegno per il cambiamento sociale
Full text linkAffascinante. Questo è ciò che pensai quando la conobbi circa trentacinque anni fa. Ricordo perfettamente il momento. La mitica aula 1 (ora completamente trasformata) di Scienze Politiche a Milano. C’era un’assemblea, come usava allora. Forse nei giorni dell’occupazione del Movimento della Pantera? Non saprei dirlo con certezza. So solo che ho un ricordo indelebile di quel breve scambio di convenevoli, un momento di per sé come tanti, privo di eccezionalità e quindi potenzialmente dimenticabile, se non fosse stato per il suo straordinario carisma.
Poi i percorsi biografici mi portarono via dalla mia città, e instaurammo rapporti di lavoro e di amicizia solo molti anni dopo, quando il mio coinvolgimento attivo nello sforzo di rendere gli studi di genere più visibili nell’accademia italiana, insieme a colleghe-amiche ancora oggi al mio fianco in uno stimolante rapporto di sorellanza, divenne preponderante.
E il repertorio di aggettivi si infittì. Ancora affascinante. Ma anche: intelligente, coltissima, raffinata, autoironica, amante della vita, forte, cosmopolita, sorridente, anti-barona, generosa
Maschilità egemone. FORMULAZIONE, RIFORMULAZIONE E DIFFUSIONE
No full textThe concept of hegemonic masculinity, formulated by Raewyn Connell more than three decades ago, has been the driving force behind the expanding field of masculinities studies. Hegemonic Masculinity: Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification provides the first comprehensive overview of the concept-from its original conception to how it has evolved over time. The book also examines some of the most powerful ways the concept is being used in contemporary gender studies. Hegemonic Masculinity describes the development of the concept, the actual formulation and initial applications of the concept, the eventual reformulation and subsequent applications of that reformulation, and finally, the amplification of the reformulated concept of hegemonic masculinity. The book also includes a chapter theorizing why and how hegemonic masculinities are constructed, and the concluding chapter chronicles the prospects for social change toward more egalitarian gender relations. Hegemonic Masculinity: Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification brings together for the first time in one volume the history of the concept as well as a discussion and examination of some of the most important research accomplished on hegemonic masculinity over the last thirty years
‘I’m not a faggot, I’m a man’. Male sex workers doing masculinity talking sex
No full textIn this chapter, the authors link discourses on sex and sexuality with male sex work – specifically, men who sell sex to other men, in public places. The aim is to show how young males involved in sex work can neutralize identity labels and construct and exchange sexual capital by creating hierarchies of bodies, practices and desires. We describe how sexuality and sex are present in discourses as much as in our daily lives, and we engage more directly with previous research that has analyzed the role of language in sex work. Drawing on empirical data from an ethnographic study that has been carried out by the authors of this chapter, we analyze how men that sell sex to other men in public venues in the south of Italy use language to ‘justify’ their presence in the market and their actions. These justifications will be analyzed from the perspective of masculinitie
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