30412 - Retheorizing Sex, Desire, and Consent

Description

This session aims to critically examine existing frameworks around sex, desire, and consent, pushing beyond traditional understandings shaped by binary and normative points of view. The session will scrutinize the limitations of dominant models and propose alternative frameworks that allow for more nuanced conversations about autonomy, agency, and relationality. Ultimately, this session invites scholars to rethink some major concepts and ideas in the sociology of sexualities while envisioning new possibilities for ethical, consensual sexual engagements that reflect the diversity and dynamism of the human experience.

Sub Unit

• Sexuality

Presider

• Canton Winer, Northern Illinois University

Individual Presentations

• “Love is Not a Finite Resource”: How People Define Their Consensual Non-Monogamy - Mark Alexander Griffith, Northwestern University

• Asexual Desire for the Erotic - George Sanders, Oakland University; Heidi Lyons, Oakland University

• Defining Desire: How Highly Sexual Women Construct and Assert Their Identity" - Alicia M. Walker, Missouri State University

• A Qualitative Exploration of MSM Sides: Queering the Sexual Top/Bottom Binary - Andy Holmes, University of Toronto; Ash Catonio, University of Toronto

• Fictosexuality, Asexuality, and the Fluidity of Desire in Cosplay Spaces - Weifeng Tao, University of Oxford

Session Organizer

• Amin Ghaziani, University of California, Santa Barbara