Displaying the Phallus
- 1 April 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Men and Masculinities
- Vol. 1 (4) , 352-364
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184x99001004002
Abstract
On adult video-conferencing sites, men present sexualized bodies as objects of the gaze through an interactive medium that enables, while it limits, the possibility of the passive and the feminine. Within this unstable subject/object framework, the men construct a masculine subjectivity and a male sexual identity. Male sexuality, through the medium of CU-SeeMe, is both an affirmational community performance and an individual erotic display. These sites combine established conventions of film and the evolving practices of electronic chat to produce new discourses of male sexual display.Keywords
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