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ERIC Number: EJ988116
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1554-6128
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Teaching Men's Anal Pleasure: Challenging Gender Norms with "Prostage" Education
Branfman, Jonathan; Ekberg Stiritz, Susan
American Journal of Sexuality Education, v7 n4 p404-428 2012
To help students critique sex/gender norms, sexuality educators should address men's anal pleasure. Men's anal receptivity blurs accepted binaries like male/female, masculine/feminine, and straight/queer. By suppressing men's receptivity, the taboo against men's anal pleasure helps legitimize hegemonic sex/gender beliefs--and the sexism, homophobia, and male dominance they encourage. Conversely, by deconstructing men's anal taboo and creating a new language of anal pleasure--"prostage" (pro-STAHJ)--educators can help students challenge restrictive gender norms. We base this argument on an anonymous, online, mixed methods survey we conducted with 228 undergraduate men, as well as existing literature on men's anal sexuality. (Contains 4 footnotes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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