TY - JOUR
T1 - Ready and Waiting
T2 - Heterosexual Men’s Decision-making Narratives in Initiation of Sexual Intimacy
AU - Montemurro, Beth
AU - Riehman-Murphy, Christina
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the support of the Abington College Undergraduate Research Activities Program and the Rubin Fund, which provided funding for data collection and analysis for this study. The authors also express gratitude to John Jackson, Jonathan Magill, Clarence Bryant, and Victoria Pirenoglu for their research assistance and to Penn State Abington students Alejandra Barmash and Madeline Richard for their work on transcription and coding. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the support of the Abington College Undergraduate Research Activities Program and the Rubin Fund, which provided funding for data collection and analysis for this study. The authors also express gratitude to John Jackson, Jonathan Magill, Clarence Bryant, and Victoria Pirenoglu for their research assistance and to Penn State Abington students Alejandra Barmash and Madeline Richard for their work on transcription and coding. Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - Recent sexualities scholarship generally frames men as adhering to narratives of sexual assertion and constructions of hegemonic masculinity. However, research on masculinities notes scripts are changing and providing mixed messages regarding the expression of sexualities for heterosexual men. Given this, we look closely at sexual scripts in initiation of sexual intimacy as a means of exploring transformation in sexualities and understanding men’s interpersonal/intrapsychic narratives as expressions of masculinities. Based on in-depth interviews with sixty-nine heterosexual men, ages twenty to fifty-nine, we found that interviewees recounted feelings of readiness and desire for sex as boys and young men. We also found that though, as boys and young men, interviewees felt ready for and desired sex, yet in first experiences, they shared they were anxious and usually waited for partners to initiate or for clear clues partners were ready. Men’s accounts reflect concerns with sexual performance and the incongruence of sexual scripts at the cultural and interpersonal/intrapsychic levels, as well as a private expression of masculinity, reserved for situations with intimate partners.
AB - Recent sexualities scholarship generally frames men as adhering to narratives of sexual assertion and constructions of hegemonic masculinity. However, research on masculinities notes scripts are changing and providing mixed messages regarding the expression of sexualities for heterosexual men. Given this, we look closely at sexual scripts in initiation of sexual intimacy as a means of exploring transformation in sexualities and understanding men’s interpersonal/intrapsychic narratives as expressions of masculinities. Based on in-depth interviews with sixty-nine heterosexual men, ages twenty to fifty-nine, we found that interviewees recounted feelings of readiness and desire for sex as boys and young men. We also found that though, as boys and young men, interviewees felt ready for and desired sex, yet in first experiences, they shared they were anxious and usually waited for partners to initiate or for clear clues partners were ready. Men’s accounts reflect concerns with sexual performance and the incongruence of sexual scripts at the cultural and interpersonal/intrapsychic levels, as well as a private expression of masculinity, reserved for situations with intimate partners.
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U2 - 10.1177/1097184X17753040
DO - 10.1177/1097184X17753040
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073590336
SN - 1097-184X
VL - 22
SP - 872
EP - 892
JO - Men and Masculinities
JF - Men and Masculinities
IS - 5
ER -