The C-Word (Cheater): Infidelity as the Ultimate Threat

Walker, Alicia M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49818-4_1

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“…There are two potential explanations for this perception. First, truthful and enthusiastic connections with sex partners provided married men with “much-needed validation of their masculinity” (Walker 2020, 104). Second, because these men believed such truthfulness was unattainable in everyday life, these encounters offered “the possibility of escape—from work, from home, from aspects of the self that are seen as oppressive” (Frank 2002, 202).…”

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Bounded Nonnormativity of Heterosexuality: Gendered Sex Partying in Hong Kong

Tsui

2023

Gender & Society

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Despite queer theory’s intention to critically analyze the institution of heterosexuality, how heterosexual men and women are differently constrained by normativity—or potentially rupture it—is underexplored. Through an ethnography of sex partying, I integrate queer and feminist perspectives to examine how people navigate and cope with institutionalized heterosexuality and compulsory monogamy. This study finds a contradictory relationship between sex partygoers and normativity: They embrace the ideal of straight manhood and womanhood but simultaneously feel constrained by and desire to transgress it. Therefore, the bounded nonnormativity of sex partying, which allows the compartmentalization of normative and nonnormative desires, is instrumental in helping them cope with the contradiction. This paper contributes to gendering transnational queer sociology by highlighting the distinct experiences of men and women in relation to the regime of normalcy in Hong Kong.

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Section: Bounded Nonnormativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bounded Nonnormativity of Heterosexuality: Gendered Sex Partying in Hong Kong

Tsui

2023

Gender & Society

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The C-Word (Cheater): Infidelity as the Ultimate Threat

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Bounded Nonnormativity of Heterosexuality: Gendered Sex Partying in Hong Kong

Bounded Nonnormativity of Heterosexuality: Gendered Sex Partying in Hong Kong

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