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Människa, teknik och sexuell njutning. Levda erfarenheter av att använda lufttrycksvibratorer

Eriksson, Maria LU (2021) GNVM03 20211
Department of Gender Studies
Abstract
Through ten semi-structured interviews, with people identified as women and air pressure stimulator users, this study examines lived experiences of using air pressure stimulators. The stimulators serve as a prism to explore the gendered relationship between human, technology and sexual pleasure. Judith Butler’s (2007) heterosexual matrix, Gayle Rubin’s (1998 [1984]) sex hierarchy and Donna Haraway’s (2008) cyborg form the theoretical framework of the study. The users of the stimulators navigate within a heterosexual order that believes that women's sexual autonomy poses a threat to dominant gender and sexuality norms. Women's desires are here expected to be directed unilaterally at a man, not a technology. However, gender and sexuality... (More)
Through ten semi-structured interviews, with people identified as women and air pressure stimulator users, this study examines lived experiences of using air pressure stimulators. The stimulators serve as a prism to explore the gendered relationship between human, technology and sexual pleasure. Judith Butler’s (2007) heterosexual matrix, Gayle Rubin’s (1998 [1984]) sex hierarchy and Donna Haraway’s (2008) cyborg form the theoretical framework of the study. The users of the stimulators navigate within a heterosexual order that believes that women's sexual autonomy poses a threat to dominant gender and sexuality norms. Women's desires are here expected to be directed unilaterally at a man, not a technology. However, gender and sexuality norms should not be understood as static, but rather as fluctuating. In this fluctuation, there is room for negotiation. Thus, the view of masturbation and stimulators change in relation to time, space and context. This study also highlights how the stimulator users destabilize the dichotomic order that advocates the separation of male/female, human/technology, active/passive. While the interviewees were concerned that the stimulators would alienate them from a ”natural” sexuality, the use of them brought an elevated sexual agency and new sexual experiences. (Less)
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author
Eriksson, Maria LU
supervisor
organization
course
GNVM03 20211
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Genus- och sexualitetsnormer, sexleksaker, onani, sexuell värdehierarki, cyborg, gender and sexuality norms, sex toys, masturbation, sex hierarchy
language
Swedish
id
9055953
date added to LUP
2021-09-23 08:08:26
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2021-09-23 08:08:26
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  abstract     = {{Through ten semi-structured interviews, with people identified as women and air pressure stimulator users, this study examines lived experiences of using air pressure stimulators. The stimulators serve as a prism to explore the gendered relationship between human, technology and sexual pleasure. Judith Butler’s (2007) heterosexual matrix, Gayle Rubin’s (1998 [1984]) sex hierarchy and Donna Haraway’s (2008) cyborg form the theoretical framework of the study. The users of the stimulators navigate within a heterosexual order that believes that women's sexual autonomy poses a threat to dominant gender and sexuality norms. Women's desires are here expected to be directed unilaterally at a man, not a technology. However, gender and sexuality norms should not be understood as static, but rather as fluctuating. In this fluctuation, there is room for negotiation. Thus, the view of masturbation and stimulators change in relation to time, space and context. This study also highlights how the stimulator users destabilize the dichotomic order that advocates the separation of male/female, human/technology, active/passive. While the interviewees were concerned that the stimulators would alienate them from a ”natural” sexuality, the use of them brought an elevated sexual agency and new sexual experiences.}},
  author       = {{Eriksson, Maria}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Människa, teknik och sexuell njutning. Levda erfarenheter av att använda lufttrycksvibratorer}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}