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1	The Romantic and Sexual Lives of Adults with Intellectual Disability in Ontario, Canada Santinele Martino, Alan January 2020 (has links) The intersection of disability and sexuality remains a taboo topic. Along with this taboo, people with intellectual disabilities are rarely afforded the opportunity to share their experiences and desires when it comes to their intimate lives. This research examines the romantic and sexual lives of adults with intellectual disabilities in Ontario, Canada, by putting into conversation theories from the sociology of sexualities and critical disability studies. It uses a sexual fields analytic framework (Green, 2014) to explore the consequences of sexual stratification on the experiences of disabled people. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 46 adults with intellectual disabilities, this research explores how they are kept out of sexual fields through a series of disabling social processes. It also examines how participants make sense of their gender and sexual identities based on gender habitus acquired in their lives and how they are often confined to “hetero-romantic” forms of sexual expression and traditional gender roles. Finally, this project explores how participants navigate the sexual fields available to them and their strategies for negotiating those fields. This research brings to view previously unexplored sexual fields within the existing sexual fields literature. I discuss what I call intellectual disability sexual fields, spaces exclusively for people with intellectual disabilities, as well as more mainstream sexual fields. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) disability sexuality sexual fields intellectual disability Ontario Canada qualitative interviews intimate citizenship erotic habitus sexual capital
2	Ett sexuellt sökfält : En kvalitativ studie om socialt och sexuellt kontaktskapande på Grindr. / A sexual searching field : A qualitative study of social and sexual contacts on Grindr. Pedersen, Alexander January 2021 (has links) This study aims to understand how social and sexual relations are initiated, negotiated and constructed among homo- and bisexual men within a specific sexual field; the geo-social application Grindr. It’s based on qualitative and semi-structured interviews with six self-identified homosexual men in Sweden from various age groups and with various social backgrounds who are using, or has used, Grindr in order to initiate and establish contacts with other homo- and bisexual men. Of certain interest are their experiences of using the application and being a part of its social and sexual setting. In order to analyse the interviews, a combination of sexual script theory and sexual field theory has been used, together with Norbert Elias theories on the relationship between the established and the outsiders. The results indicate that Grindr is a refuge and safe space for homo- and bisexual men and queer persons from the social and sexual norms that prevails in a heteronormative society. As such, Grindr could be understood as a social and sexual field of its own, in which interpersonal scripts and negotiations are crucial for establishing contacts of various kinds. There is also a remarkable sexual stratification based on various sexual capitals that the users of Grindr use to position themselves in relation to each other in order to be regarded as desirable. One consequence of these “structures of desire” is that some personal and bodily qualities often are regarded in a less favourable way, sometimes with stigmatization and marginalization of groups of people as dire consequences of these structures of sexuality. There’s also a remarkable distinction, resistance and ambivalence against the heteronormative society and its cultural scenarios, but at the same time it was a necessary part in the collective self-image of being an outsider group. Grindr sexual fields sexual scripts homosexual men lgbt erotic habitus sexual capital erotic capital sexuality moral differentiation stigma Grindr sexuella fält sexuella manus sexualitet homosexuella män HBTQ-personer begärsstrukturer sexuella kapital erotiskt habitus moralisk differentiering stigma Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap Sociology Sociologi Gender Studies Genusstudier

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The Romantic and Sexual Lives of Adults with Intellectual Disability in Ontario, Canada

Ett sexuellt sökfält : En kvalitativ studie om socialt och sexuellt kontaktskapande på Grindr. / A sexual searching field : A qualitative study of social and sexual contacts on Grindr.