'Privileging of the Penis'?

Submitted by anthony on Sun, 2009-07-12 20:29

Article here. Excerpt:

'Few studies have focused on men’s involvement in safe and unsafe heterosexual sex, far more research on the heterosexual transmission of HIV centres on women than on men, and very few education campaigns are aimed at straight men. There are good and bad reasons for this. On the one hand, this reflects feminist achievements in identifying AIDS as a women’s issue. On the other hand, men’s absence reflects the status of maleness as normative and invisible and perpetuates the allocation of responsibility for safe sex only to women. Women’s inclusion in AIDS policy and education is a valuable achievement, and there are sound feminist reasons for directing attention also to heterosexual men.
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Heterosexual men’s complaints about ‘showers in raincoats’ demonstrate a privileging of the penis as an important site of sexual sensation and erotic pleasure. To the extent that these complaints inform heterosexual men’s reluctance to use condoms, they privilege men’s pleasure over prophylactic and contraceptive safety.'

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... parts of them get chopped off shortly after they are created. Wow, THAT is privilege!

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2009-07-13 15:11

The author did his PhD in a Women’s Studies department at Australian National University. That automatically exposes him as an ideologue, not a scientist.

The thing about the social sciences is this: You can very often shape the results to to fit your biases. That is much harder in the hard sciences.

Besides that, this is a literature review, which is not much more credible than an editorial in your local newspaper.

This guy is a brainwashed blowhard, reaching for tenure and promotion by betraying his own gender.

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Down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting,
For a good man's love.

Shakespeare, As You Like It III, 5

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Submitted by Belgorod on Mon, 2009-07-13 20:11

xyonline is a male feminist website, it can not be trusted to accurately describe the male situation in regard to feminism.

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Submitted by Broadsword on Mon, 2009-07-13 22:45