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Lesbian Behavior as an Adaptation to the Occupation of Stripping
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In this article, a complementary perspective is suggested wherein the choice of sexual object is influenced by structural factors, as appears to be the case in the total institutional setting, where isolation from affective social relationships, unsatisfactory relationships with males, and an opportunity structure allowing a wide range of sexual behavior.Abstract:
Simon and Gagnon have drawn attention to the importance of linking patterns of homosexual behavior to nondeviant behavior or roles. A complementary perspective is suggested wherein the choice of sexual object is influenced by structural factors, as appears to be the case in the total institutional setting. Some occupations may provide conditions to which homosexual behavior emerges as an adaptation. Stripping appears to be such an occupation in which the following conditions exist: 1) isolation from affective social relationships, 2) unsatisfactory relationships with males, and 3) an opportunity structure allowing a wide range of sexual behavior.read more
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Bisexuality: the state of the union.
TL;DR: This article reviews the historical and cultural processes that produced the paradoxical conceivability of bisexuality, and discusses the cultural attitudes toward bisexuality that result from this paradox and shows how scientific research on bisexuality has been guided by popular conceptions of, and attitudes toward, bisexuality.
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TURN-ONS FOR MONEY Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer
Carol Rambo Ronai,Carolyn Ellis +1 more
TL;DR: Using participant observation, retrospective and interactive introspection, and interviews, the authors describe interactional strategies used by erotic dancers to sell table dances, in contrast to past studies that used participant observation and retrospective introspection.
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Bisexuality: Some social psychological issues.
Philip Blumstein,Pepper Schwartz +1 more
TL;DR: The authors presented an overview of their interview study with 156 men and women having a history of more than incidental sexual experience with both men, women, and men's partners, and some of the findings are presented to address the following questions: How does bisexuality fit into the erotic careers of respondents? What factors contribute to the adoption of bisexual self-identification? What circumstances are conducive to the development of bisexuality in individuals? What are the differences between the processes of becoming a bisexual female and becoming a bi-identified male?
Turn-Ons for Money
Carol Rambo Ronai,Carolyn Ellis +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Ronai and Ellis explore the interactional strategies that table dancers use to cultivate counterfeit intimacy and identify men who might be too sexually forward or expect too much, and single out men who consume too much of their attention.
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Working in the fantasy factory : The attention hypothesis and the enacting of masculine power in strip clubs
TL;DR: This paper argued that interactions between strippers and their customers are vehicles for the conveyance of attention and the enactment of masculine power in addition to sexual attraction and dominance. But, they did not consider the role of women in these interactions.
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