Sexual culture from the viewpoint of male college students
The sexual culture of young people has changed rapidly in recent decades. This article discusses young Icelandic men’s experience and perception of the prevailing sexual culture of upper secondary students in Iceland today. We look at this experience through the lenses of sexual health and sexual sc...
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fticelandunivojs:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/2964 2023-08-20T04:07:26+02:00 Sexual culture from the viewpoint of male college students Kynlífsmenning framhaldsskólanema frá sjónarhorni ungra karla Sigurgeirsdóttir,, Kolbrún Hrund Kristinsson, Þórður Einarsdóttir, Þorgerður Einarsdóttir 2019-09-12 application/pdf https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/netla/article/view/2964 isl ice Menntavísindasvið Háskóla Íslands https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/netla/article/view/2964/1710 https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/netla/article/view/2964 Copyright (c) 2019 Netla Netla - english edition; 2019: Netla - Ársrit Netla; 2019: Netla - Ársrit 1670-0244 Sexual culture peer-pressure sexual script gender order Kynlífsmenning kynlífshandrit þrýstingur kynjakerfi info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2019 fticelandunivojs 2023-08-01T12:29:20Z The sexual culture of young people has changed rapidly in recent decades. This article discusses young Icelandic men’s experience and perception of the prevailing sexual culture of upper secondary students in Iceland today. We look at this experience through the lenses of sexual health and sexual script and social factors which inf luence how sexual culture manifests itself. We look especially at the role of hookup culture and porn as well as the effects of sex education, or rather, the lack of sex education. Individual and group interviews were conducted with 11 boys aged 18 to 21 from ten secondary schools in the capital area and beyond.Results indicate that social pressure has a significant impact on the sexual attitudes and practices of young men who were subjected to a very tangible insistence to have lost their virginity and to be able to participate in casual social interactions where sexual experience is considered normal and lack of that experience is ridiculed. Also, the participants referred to the dominant discourse that men should always be willing to have sex if the opportunity arises. A strong theme in the interviews was about different social standards as to how women should look versus how men should look. Although there was a shared theme on some issues such as shaving of genital areas that most boys and all girls are “supposed to” do, the young men were unequivocal in maintaining that there is a stronger pressure on young women to fulfil certain beauty standards and have a certain desirable body type. The role of social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Tinder was brought up and connected to their perceived increasing focus on unrealistic beauty standards. All interviewees were in accord that pornography was heavily used by their male peers and if you did not watch porn you were considered abnormal. They spoke frankly on the effects of porn on their sexual imagination and what we consider to be the prevailing sexual script of young people in Iceland. They believe that porn ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University of Iceland: Peer Reviewed Journals |
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The sexual culture of young people has changed rapidly in recent decades. This article discusses young Icelandic men’s experience and perception of the prevailing sexual culture of upper secondary students in Iceland today. We look at this experience through the lenses of sexual health and sexual script and social factors which inf luence how sexual culture manifests itself. We look especially at the role of hookup culture and porn as well as the effects of sex education, or rather, the lack of sex education. Individual and group interviews were conducted with 11 boys aged 18 to 21 from ten secondary schools in the capital area and beyond.Results indicate that social pressure has a significant impact on the sexual attitudes and practices of young men who were subjected to a very tangible insistence to have lost their virginity and to be able to participate in casual social interactions where sexual experience is considered normal and lack of that experience is ridiculed. Also, the participants referred to the dominant discourse that men should always be willing to have sex if the opportunity arises. A strong theme in the interviews was about different social standards as to how women should look versus how men should look. Although there was a shared theme on some issues such as shaving of genital areas that most boys and all girls are “supposed to” do, the young men were unequivocal in maintaining that there is a stronger pressure on young women to fulfil certain beauty standards and have a certain desirable body type. The role of social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Tinder was brought up and connected to their perceived increasing focus on unrealistic beauty standards. All interviewees were in accord that pornography was heavily used by their male peers and if you did not watch porn you were considered abnormal. They spoke frankly on the effects of porn on their sexual imagination and what we consider to be the prevailing sexual script of young people in Iceland. They believe that porn ... |
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Sigurgeirsdóttir,, Kolbrún Hrund Kristinsson, Þórður Einarsdóttir, Þorgerður Einarsdóttir |
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Sigurgeirsdóttir,, Kolbrún Hrund Kristinsson, Þórður Einarsdóttir, Þorgerður Einarsdóttir |
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Sexual culture from the viewpoint of male college students |
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Sexual culture from the viewpoint of male college students |
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Menntavísindasvið Háskóla Íslands |
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