Thompson, “Shit, man, the day they call me queer is when I let one of these faggos suck on me for less than a tenner.” This stuff was sort of always going in all sorts of different situations and cultural contexts, right? You write about homosexual activity within biker gangs, for example - one Hell’s Angel, enthusiastically describing having gay sex for cash, memorably told Hunter S. You take readers on sort of a 20 th-century American tour of heterosexual dabbling in homosexual behavior, and there was never a lack of evidence that such dabbling took place. So one selling point for me in the book was to think about, Why are we telling this really different story about women’s sexuality? With men, on the other hand, the idea that they have this hardwired heterosexual impulse to spread their seed and that that’s relatively inflexible, also kind of reinforces the party line about heteronormativity and also frankly, patriarchy. It’s interesting, because if you look at this belief that women’s sexuality is more receptive - it’s more fluid, it’s triggered by external stimuli, that women have the capacity to be sort of aroused by anything and everything - it really just reinforces what we want to believe about women, which is that women are always sexually available people. And what I argue in the book is that even that research is situated within some long-held beliefs about the fundamental difference between men and women that are not accurate from a feminist perspective. I think there’s been a lot of sexological and psychological research suggesting that men’s sexuality is more rigid than women’s and that women are inherently more sexually fluid. Right, and it’s not just sort of conventional wisdom or conservative ideology that teaches that. There does seem to be this idea that women can do it without being seen as gay, while with men, either there’s some explanation that can explain it, or they’re gay and just don’t realize or won’t acknowledge it. Reza Aslan on What the New Atheists Get Wrong About Islam Science of Us spoke to Ward about her book. Given how prevalent this behavior is in so many different sorts of settings, Ward suggest it’s time to stop explaining it away - and argues that society’s conception of male heterosexuality is an unrealistic, expedient one. In doing so, she shows that homosexual contact has been a regular feature of heterosexual life ever since the concepts of homo- and heterosexuality were first created - not just in prisons and frat houses and the military, but in biker gangs and even conservative suburban neighborhoods.
In Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, out last month from NYU Press, Jane Ward, an associate professor of women’s studies at the University of California, Riverside, makes the case that this is a flawed understanding.
This divide stems from a common understanding of human sexuality: The female variety of it is more malleable, more inherently open to experimentation and variety, than the male variety. When straight women hook up with other straight women, no real explanation is required when straight men hook up with other straight men, it’s a different story. When heterosexual men hook up with each other, on the other hand, it’s seen either as an act born of desperation - think men who are locked up - or an indication that while they may claim to be straight, they really aren’t - think disgraced GOP members of Congress. When heterosexual women make out with one another at a bar or party, it’s generally understood that they’re simply playing around for attention, or exploring the fluid space that is female sexuality. There’s a pretty clear gender divide in how Americans deal with straight people who dabble in gay activity.
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