Event Title
Swipe: Affective and Experiential Implications of the First Sex Act
Location
Diamond 343
Start Date
30-4-2015 1:00 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 2:25 PM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
The socially constructed concept of virginity has a variety of archival and current connotations including power, liberation, and patriarchy. I use a Queer theoretical framework and Dynamic Narrative Analysis to examine the narrative enactment of discourses used in talking about, teaching, and remember sex and pleasure for young women in the United States. Using data from five focus groups and five follow up interviews with self-identified female Colby students, I explore how young women are using impression management strategies to shape their strategic narratives around their first sex act, and how participants use symbolic boundary work to mark the definitions of good and bad sex. Finally, I identify how these techniques limit the ability for continuing pedagogies of sex for both participants and their friends. I ground this work in a critical discourse analysis of Cosmopolitan Sex advice Q & A columns from 2010-2013 to explore informal pedagogies of sex that impact participants ongoing sexual knowledge.
Faculty Sponsor
Sonja Thomas
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
CLAS Field of Study
Interdisciplinary Studies
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
929
Swipe: Affective and Experiential Implications of the First Sex Act
Diamond 343
The socially constructed concept of virginity has a variety of archival and current connotations including power, liberation, and patriarchy. I use a Queer theoretical framework and Dynamic Narrative Analysis to examine the narrative enactment of discourses used in talking about, teaching, and remember sex and pleasure for young women in the United States. Using data from five focus groups and five follow up interviews with self-identified female Colby students, I explore how young women are using impression management strategies to shape their strategic narratives around their first sex act, and how participants use symbolic boundary work to mark the definitions of good and bad sex. Finally, I identify how these techniques limit the ability for continuing pedagogies of sex for both participants and their friends. I ground this work in a critical discourse analysis of Cosmopolitan Sex advice Q & A columns from 2010-2013 to explore informal pedagogies of sex that impact participants ongoing sexual knowledge.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/390