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Using hegemonic masculinity to explain gay male attraction to muscular and athletic men.
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The authors use childhood experiences with both fathers and peers, the gay community's inculcation of heteronormative ideologies, and the gay media's adherence to masculine prototypes to provide causal explanations for the appeal of muscular, lean, and athletic physiques.Abstract:
This article reviews relevant research on male homosexual attraction. Utilizing masculinity as its theoretical frame, the authors use childhood experiences with both fathers and peers, the gay community's inculcation of heteronormative ideologies, and the gay media's adherence to masculine prototypes, to provide causal explanations for the appeal of muscular, lean, and athletic physiques. While the authors acknowledge that not all individuals within the gay community look toward muscularity and athleticism as the primary components of attractiveness, it nonetheless remains important to examine the theoretical perspectives that may explain the appeal of this specific aesthetic.read more
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The archaeology of knowledge
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Online dating preferences of Asian Americans
TL;DR: The authors investigated the inter-and intraracial dating preferences of heterosexual Asian males and females as well as gay Asian males using data collected from 1270 Internet dating profiles, logistic regression is employed to examine the odds of one's willingness to date someone who is Asian, White, Black, Hispanic, and some other race.
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Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of sex
TL;DR: In this article, the Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary are discussed, as well as the Assumption of Sex, in the context of critical queering, passing and arguing with the real.
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The measurement of psychological androgyny.
TL;DR: A new sex-role inventory is described that treats masculinity and femininity as two independent dimensions, thereby making it possible to characterize a person as masculine, feminine, or "androgynous" as a function of the difference between his or her endorsement of masculine and feminine personality characteristics.
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The Archaeology of Knowledge.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the Statement and the Archive and define the Enunciative Function 3. The Description of Staements 4. Contradictions 5. Change and Transformations 6. The Formation of Concepts 7. Conclusion Conclusion Index
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The archaeology of knowledge
TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.
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Simulacra and Simulation
TL;DR: The Disneyland imaginary is neither true nor false: it is a deterrence machine Set up in order to rejuvenate in reverse the fiction of the real world as discussed by the authors, since everything is already dead and risen in advance.