Heterosexuality Among Dudes Who Have Sex Summary

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The paper “Dude Sex: White Masculinities and “Authentic” Heterosexuality Among Dudes Who Have Sex with,” published in the Sexualities Journal and authored by Jane Ward revolves around the idea that whiteness, masculinity and culture interact to offer a heterosexual culture to white men who want to have sex with men, thus reaffirming their identity as “straight men” and consequently rejecting or distancing themselves from gay culture. The author uses the Casual Encounters section of Craigslist-Los Angeles for her research and found a number of types of ads of such encounters. One such type is regular dudes, who are str8 dudes in heteroerotic culture who seek casual encounters with other men while reinforcing straightness with the use of stereotyped cultural norms that make them “bros or dudes”. …show more content…

420). While in other cases using violence against women as a link between dude-sex and heterosexual male bonding and masculinity. This masculinity also took different forms, from appropriating hip-hop culture using ‘Black slang’ and being ‘thugs’ to the more mainstream (for white men) surfers, skaters and frat guys, as archetypes of white heterosexual masculinity. Another form of this MSM’s (straight men who have sex with other men), was the desire for black men. This form was less str8 and more on the DL (down low/low key), a type of pre-formulated code for impersonal sex across racial difference. Recurring themes here, were anonymity, discretion and ‘Black dominance’ over ‘White submissiveness’. In this case it wasn’t ‘male bonding’ or ‘men just being men’, but rather differences in class and race produced a “darker, less natural and less straight encounter” (Pg.

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