Within the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and attract women is
understood as a skill which heterosexual men can cultivate through practical training and …

This article presents a discursive analysis of 43 men's narratives about paying for sex,
collected using a combination of online and traditional face-to-face interview methods. It …

Practically all social scientists would agree that science entails an ongoing dialectic
between the development, testing, and refinement of theory. Yet they would certainly …

In this article, I analyze weaponized subordination, wherein men strategically use their
perceived subordinate masculine status to legitimate their degradation of women. I draw on …

This book draws on a range of sources, including tales of castaways, fictional narratives, and
interviews with teachers in conversation schools and universities in Japan, to explore many …

Orgasmic Bodies explores how bodily experiences of orgasm are worked up as
present/absent, complicated/straightforward, too slow/too fast, fake or real, in the doing of …

Dominant understandings of men's sexuality claim that men are always up for sex; as such,
research on heterosexual men's sexual refusals is sparse. Drawing on interviews conducted …

This paper explores negotiations of intimate and sexual subjectivity among men involved in
the London 'seduction community', a central locus within what is more properly regarded as …

This paper draws on theories of masculinity to explore men's motivations for beginning and
continuing to pay for sex with women. Based on in-depth interviews with 35 male clients of …

Commercial sex is an everyday occurrence across a range of contexts in South Africa. In this
paper we turn our attention to the often-marginalised role of the buyers of sex by drawing on …