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Critical Sexuality Scholarship<\/h3>

A critical sexuality studies perspective guides our work. This approach addresses the ways sexology and popular discourses produce specific gendered modes of sexual subjectivity, sexual norms and meanings, sexual representations, and sexual wellbeing. We examine the construction and constriction of sexual concepts and practices, by tracking the culturally \u2013 and historically \u2013 specific epistemic and empirical foundations and implications of sexuality research.<\/p>

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Feminist Epistemologies and Methodologies<\/h3>

Feminist epistemologies and methodologies \u2013 with feminist poststructuralism and discursive approaches as central analytic tools \u2013 direct our theoretical and empirical work. We critically examine sexuality scholarship, with attention to assumptions about normality, health, desire, agency, pleasure, and the conduct of relationships.<\/p>

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Sexual Meanings, Messages and Practices<\/h3>

We have studied sexual meanings, messages and practices in the context of health issues, such as: sexuality in women living with HIV\/AIDS; masculinity and sexuality in men with testicular cancer; lesbian and bisexual women\u2019s health resources; and the role of sexual health education in sexual norm development.\r\n\r\nThe theoretical and epistemic parameters have focused on: the epistemological location of bisexuality within queer theory; self-labeling decisions among bisexual women; traversing affect scholarship, post-Lacanian feminist psychoanalysis and feminist poststructuralism to examine how sexual messages and ideologies permeate and persist across social and psychic spaces; and psychology\u2019s perpetuation of queer men\u2019s body dissatisfaction imperative.<\/p>

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Sexual Technologies<\/h3>

We join a body of feminist scholarship directed at expanding epistemic and empirical conversations beyond sexual empowerment\/oppression oppositions (e.g., Gavey, 2012; Jagose, 2010; McClelland 2010), by addressing the ways social meanings, symbolic representations, affects, and fantasy about sexuality cohere in subjectivities.\r\n\r\nSpecific sexual technologies examined include: recreational sexual enhancement medication (e.g., Viagra, STAXYN), penile rehabilitation techniques following prostate cancer, women\u2019s pornography experiences within relationships, women\u2019s male erotica use, and sexual expert discourses.\r\n<\/p>

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