Lewis Ruth, Marston Cicely
a Department of Sociology , University of the Pacific, and Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
b Faculty of Public Health and Policy , London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
J Sex Res. 2016 Sep;53(7):776-87. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2015.1117564. Epub 2016 Feb 5.
Young people in many countries report gender differences in giving and receiving oral sex, yet examination of young people's own perspectives on gender dynamics in oral heterosex are relatively rare. We explored the constructs and discourses 16- to 18-year-old men and women in England used in their accounts of oral sex during in-depth interviews. Two contrasting constructs were in circulation in the accounts: on one hand, oral sex on men and women was narrated as equivalent, while on the other, oral sex on women was seen as "a bigger deal" than oral sex on men. Young men and women used a "give and take" discourse, which constructed the mutual exchange of oral sex as "fair." Appeals to an ethic of reciprocity in oral sex enabled women to present themselves as demanding equality in their sexual interactions, and men as supporting mutuality. However, we show how these ostensibly positive discourses about equality also worked in narratives to obscure women's constrained agency and work with respect to giving oral sex.
许多国家的年轻人报告称在口交的给予和接受方面存在性别差异，然而，对年轻人自身关于异性口交中性别动态的观点进行研究却相对较少。我们通过深入访谈，探究了英国16至18岁男女在讲述口交经历时所使用的概念和话语。在这些讲述中，存在两种相互矛盾的概念：一方面，男女之间的口交被描述为等同的；另一方面，女性的口交被视为比男性的口交“更重要”。年轻男女使用了一种“给予与接受”的话语，将口交的相互交换构建为“公平的”。对口交中互惠伦理的诉求使女性能够在性互动中表现出要求平等，而男性则表现为支持相互性。然而，我们展示了这些表面上关于平等的积极话语在叙述中是如何掩盖女性在给予口交方面的受限能动性和付出的。
