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Article: Western heterosexual masculinity, anxiety, and Web porn.
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- The Journal of Men's Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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The notion of a crisis in heterosexual masculine identity has become something of a commonplace in the literature on men in contemporary society (see Walzer, 2002). This view, however, seems to imply that there was a time in which heterosexual masculine identity was not somehow "at risk"; that is, it might be taken to imply that a time existed when heterosexual masculine identity was stable and secure.
This view is difficult to sustain. It might make sense, then, to approach this in terms of relative degrees of crisis. Two reasons can be presented for adopting this view. The first is that theories of the subject as decentred suggest that a stable male centre is ...