Sexual Disgust

Dollimore, Jonathan

doi:10.3366/olr.1998.004

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“…75 The repetitive presence of disgust in the memoirs signals a desperate need to sustain boundaries of respectability and morality, which are not merely "vulnerable to disruption," in Dollimore's words, but are, more often than not, impossible. 76 My analysis is of course limited in terms of the material presented here. Although my reading is informed by broader textual observations of the memoirs, I chose to zoom in on two authors, Shalamov and Ginzburg, both of whom describe a very particular time of imprisonment-the 1930s to the 1950s of the Stalinist terror-and also a very particular location, the Kolyma camps, considered one of the worst in terms of their conditions.…”

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"With a Shade of Disgust": Affective Politics of Sexuality and Class in Memoirs of the Stalinist Gulag

Kuntsman¹

2009

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This article addresses a topic seldom discussed in gulag studies: same-sex relations in the camps. In particular, it deals with affective politics of sexuality and class in gulag memoirs and the role of disgust in the formation of sexual and class boundaries. It approaches disgust as existing between the individual and the social, the subjective and the historical, the internal and the external, and traces the ways the gulag memoirs constitute the disgusting, the disgusted, and the boundary between them. At the center of the article are descriptions of same-sex relations in the Kolyma camps of the 1930s-1950s by Evgenia Ginzburg and Varlam Shalamov. Based on a critical reading of these and other memoirs, Adi Kuntsman reveals how same-sex relations among the common criminals are constructed by the memoirists as disgusting because they go against gender norms and against class perceptions of sexual morality. Kuntsman shows how these perceptions of the appropriate, embedded within the habitus of the intelligentsia, are transformed in the memoirs into the universal category of humanness, locating the common criminals, and, by association, anyone who engages in same-sex relations, beyond the bounds of humanity.

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"With a Shade of Disgust": Affective Politics of Sexuality and Class in Memoirs of the Stalinist Gulag

Kuntsman¹

2009

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“…Fat liberation encourages fat men and women to reject the culturally imposed shame that is attached to their bodies and to replace it with bodily pride. The movement for fat liberation thus shares the strategies of postwar liberation movements, which tended to demystify or pathologize disgust (Dollimore 1998, 50). In particular, it shares metaphors with the gay, lesbian, and queer liberation movements of the late twentieth century.…”

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Jenny Saville and a Feminist Aesthetics of Disgust

Meagher¹

2003

Hypatia

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This essay examines an aesthetics of disgust through an analysis of the work of Scottish painter Jenny Saville. Saville's paintings suggest that there is something valuable in retaining and interrogating our immediate and seemingly unambivalent reactions of disgust. 1 contrast Saville's representations of disgust to the repudiation of disgust that characterizes contemporary corporeal politics. Drawing on the theoretical work of Elspeth Probyn andJulia Kristeva, I suggest that an aesthetics of disgust reveals the fundamental ambiguity of embodiment, allowing us to critically attend to the aesthetic and cultural objectification of the female body. The contemplation of beauty and pleasure are deeply embedded in the Western tradition of aesthetics. Despite their marginal position within this tradition, many women artists have continued with the practice of contemplating beauty and pleasure and their multiple and contested meanings. Scottish painter Jenny Saville (b. 1970) falls squarely within this tradition. Her work interrogates assumptions about beauty by depicting bodies that are not at all beautiful in any conventional sense. The bodies she depicts are not the refined and evenly proportioned nudes of classical art. Saville's enormous canvases, Plan and Hybrid, included in the 1997 show of young British artists, Sensation, depict distorted, fleshy, and disquieting naked female bodies. As with most of the work displayed in Sensation, Saville's paintings are sensational in both senses of the word: not only do they provoke the excitement and interest of the artworld, they also elicit sensual-even visceral-reactions. These bodies are rendered by way of surprising combinations of color. A mottled arrangement of mauves, yellows, browns, and blues seem to seep out from underneath the surface of the flesh. The unexpected use of color and fine brushstrokes compel Hypatia vol. 18, no. 4 (Fall/Winter 2003) 0 by Michelle Meagher

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“…Reminders of sex have been proposed to elicit a disgust response in two distinct ways that may be relevant to interracial couples (de Jong et al, 2013;Tybur et al, 2009). First, thinking about others having sex (Dollimore, 1998) or unwanted sexual partners (Borg et al, 2019) can elicit sexual disgust. This means that if seeing or thinking about interracial couples elicits increased thoughts about sexual behavior (relative to same-race couples), these increased thoughts about others' sexual behaviors could lead people to feel disgusted.…”

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Deviant Sexual Stereotyping of Black-White Interracial Couples in the U.S. Underlies Disgust Reactions

Quinn¹,

Liu²,

Skinner-Dorkenoo³

2023

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Despite increasing acceptance of interracial couples in the U.S., biases persist, and some evidence suggests that interracial couples may elicit a disgust response among people in the U.S. In a series of preregistered studies (Ntot = 3,367), we examine one possible explanation for this disgust response—sexual stereotyping of Black-White interracial couples. In Studies 1 and 2, participants explicitly identified interracial couples as being attributed deviant sexual stereotypes, and Study 3 completed the experimental causal chain by demonstrating that couples who are described with these deviant sexual stereotypes elicit disgust. Study 4 provided evidence that perceiving interracial relationships to be based on sexual fetishes statistically mediates the relation between interracial couples and disgust. Taken together, these findings indicate that interracial couples are stereotyped as sexually deviant, and that thinking of couples in terms of such deviant sexual stereotypes can produce a disgust response.

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Sexual Disgust

Cited by 7 publications

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"With a Shade of Disgust": Affective Politics of Sexuality and Class in Memoirs of the Stalinist Gulag

"With a Shade of Disgust": Affective Politics of Sexuality and Class in Memoirs of the Stalinist Gulag

Jenny Saville and a Feminist Aesthetics of Disgust

Deviant Sexual Stereotyping of Black-White Interracial Couples in the U.S. Underlies Disgust Reactions

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