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Research article summary:
'Just trying to relax': masculinity, masculinizing practices, and strip club regulars.
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This article explores customers understandings of their visits to heterosexual strip clubs and the ways in which those visits become meaningful to them in relation to cultural discourses around masculinity, sexuality, leisure, and consumption, as well as ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2003Feb
in Journal: J Sex Res
(Language : eng)
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2003 Feb;40(1):61-75
"Just trying to relax": masculinity, masculinizing practices, and strip club regulars.
Frank K
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA. kfrank@ssc.wisc.edu.
This article explores customers' understandings of their visits to heterosexual strip clubs and the ways in which those visits become meaningful to them in relation to cultural discourses around masculinity, sexuality, leisure, and consumption, as well as in relation to their everyday lives and relationships. Not every man finds strip clubs pleasurable, yet understanding why some men frequent these venues can inform us more generally about the links between sexuality, gender, and the marketplace. This article focuses on regular male customers' stated motives for visiting strip clubs and examines those visits as touristic and masculinizing practices. It also explores gender, sexuality, and power in the men s performances of desire in the clubs, taking up issues of visibility, virility, youthfulness, and commodification.
PMID : 12806532 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| Katherine | Frank | K |
Affiliation: College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA. kfrank@ssc.wisc.edu.
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