Yuill, Richard Alexander (2004) Male Age-Discrepant Intergenerational Sexualities and Relationships
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Yuill, Richard Alexander (2004) Male age-discrepant intergenerational sexualities and relationships. PhD thesis. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2795/ Copyright and moral rights for this thesis are retained by the author A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the Author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the Author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Glasgow Theses Service http://theses.gla.ac.uk/ [email protected] Male Age-Discrepant Intergenerational Sexualities and Relationships Volume One Chapters One-Thirteen Richard Alexander Yuill A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Glasgow Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences October 2004 © Richard Alexander Yuill 2004 Author's Declaration I declare that the contents of this thesis are all my own work. Richard Alexander Yuill 11 CONTENTS Page No. Acknowledgements Xll Abstract Xll1-X1V Introduction 1-9 Chapter One Literature Review 10-68 1.1 Research problem and overview 10 1.2 Adult sexual attraction to children (paedophilia) 10-22 and young people (ephebophilia) 1.21 Later Transformations (1980s-2000s) Howitt's multi-disciplinary study Ethics Criminological constructions Professional constructions Critiques of aetiological approaches Ephebophilia 1.3 Childhood and youth 22-32 Contested notions CSA and qualified critiques Risk Child and youth sexualities "Anomalies": sex offending children and gerontophiles 1.4MADIS 32-65 Finkelhor's thesis Early Gay and Lesbian perspectives CSA: theory and research Male Sexual Abuse (MSA) Male Survivor Literature 1.41 CSA as social construction Backlash discourses 1.42 Researching positive intergenerational sexual relationships 1.43 Continuum-based approaches 1.44 Later Gay, Lesbian and Queer approaches 111 1.45 Pro paedophi1e and boy1over perspectives 1.5 Adult MADIS 65-67 Conclusion 67-68 Chapter Two Historicising MADIS 69-85 Introduction 69 2.1 Historicising the present: 69-72 Genealogy and the social and discursive context 2.2 Childhood and youth in modernity 73-79 The "boy problem" The "masturbation anxiety" The "implantation" ofseduction Post Second World War North America 2.3 Adult Male Deviancy 79-83 Pre-categorisation Contextualising categorisation The imposition ofpsychodynamic formulations on MADIS 2.4 Marginalising MADIS 83-84 Conclusion 84-85 Chapter Three Theorising MADIS 86-136 Introduction 86 3.1 Theorising contemporary contributions 86-91 The reflexive backdrop A critique ofthree approaches Problematic intimacies Preliminary "observations" 3.2 Foucauldian contributions 91-111 Overview Discourses, fields ofoperation and their strategic production A Micro-analytical ascending analysis ofpower Macro-Micro: local and global effects ofpower Strategic deployment IV Power-Knowledge and subjectivity Effects ofpower: gazing, colonising, sequestrating and truth-telling Sexual subjectivity Resistance 3.21 Application to MADIS Child and youth sexuality Power relations The globalising effect: child sexuality as 'tactical anchor point' Globalising CSA The sex offender Micro-macro strategic alliances Kincaid's thesis Resistance strategies Boylover identities 3.3 Queer approaches 111-115 Multiple sexualities Rubin's thesis Queer Theory Why Queer frameworks should be attentive to MADIS 3.4 Bourdieu 's Theory ofPractice 115-119 Generational Fields and Habitus 3.5 Theorisillg Power alld Subjectivity ill MADIS 119-135 Early sociological theorising on generations Analysis ofMannheim 's framework Contemporary theorising Contested conceptions of children and young people Feminist theorising on MADIS Sexual consent 3.51 The Relational Dynamics within MAD IS Contested discursive presentations Missing subjectivity: Where are the boys? Strategic allies v Future theoretical directions for MADIS Conclusion 135-136 Chapter Four An Historical and Cross-Cultural Analysis 137-170 of MADIS Introduction 137 4.1 A Comparative and context-sensitive approach 137-142 4.2 Historiography and hermeneutics 142-144 4.3 Conceptualising MADIS in historical discourse 144-148 Ahistorical pitfalls 4.4 A Five-fold typology 149-169 4.41 Greek Pederasty Contemporary evidence Secondary interpretations Aesthetics Age ofattraction and love ofyouth Legality, nonnative limits and transgression Foucault's thesis Other interpretations Summary 4.411 Other examples of institutionalised pederasty 4.42 Rites of passage and insemination rituals 4.43 Arabic MADIS 4.44 Oriental MADIS 4.45 European early Modem and Modem MADIS Allusions to Classical Greece Other interpretations Conclusion 169-170 Chapter Five Research Methodology 171-215 Introduction 171 5.1 Methodology 171-175 Power Relations 5.2 CMC and Cyberspace Communities 175-178 VI Positive transformations Disadvantages and reservations Application to the current study 5.3 Research design 178-184 Comparison Validity Selectivity Data management: breadth versus depth Critical 5.4 Data-collection 184-193 Political background General approaches Interviewing Table One 187-188 Discursivities 5.5 Ethics and the research process 193-207 5.51 Ethics in social science research Conceptualising Framing the debates Adopting a middle ground 5.52 The ethical backdrop Institutional and Departmental ethos Theft Response 5.53 Ethical implications of researching sexuality and MAD IS Squaring the generic with the specific Table Two 206-207 5.6 Narrative theory and MADIS 208-211 5.61 The narrative tum 5.62 MADIS narratives and narrating MADIS 5.7 Reflexivity and researching MADIS 211-214 5.71 Reflexivity and intimacy 5.72 Self-reflexivity and research values Vll Conclusion 214-215 Chapter Six Boylover Narratives 216-241 Introduction 216 6.1 Face-to-face interviews 216-234 6.11 Attraction to boys through the life course First stage Second stage Early adulthood 6.12 Meanings on socio-sexual attraction to boys Reflections on boylove relationships Contesting the dominant discourse 6.13 MADIS experiences Encounters Relationships: as the younger partner As the older partner 6.14 Boylover identity politics Resisting dominant discourses Children's rights 6.2 CMC accounts 234-241 6.21 Interview schedule questions 6.22 MADIS relationships Conclusion 241 Chapter Seven Professional Accounts 242-264 Introduction 242 7.1 The discursive regulation ofsex offenders 242-255 7.11 Personal background and professional duties 7.12 Dominant influences Child protection Academic research models and literature B ehaviouralism Vl11 Re-framing subjectivity: behavioural modification and re-defining experience Constructing typologies Risk management 7.13 Establishing a victimological framework 7.14 Gender and sexuality 7.15 Concerns and reservations 7.2 Sex offending young people 255-257 Personal backgrounds andjob remits Clientele Dominant influences Differences from adult sex offender programmes 7.3 Child protection professionals 257-261 7.31 Professional remits and clientele Adult sex offending Gender and sexuality Gay Community Societal 7.4 Young men's sexual health and male sex workers 261-264 7.41 Professional remits and clientele 7.42 Key issues and dominant influences Conclusion 264 Chapter Eight Political Perspectives 265-272 Introduction 265 8.1 Personal backgrounds 265-266 8.2 Key contested issues 266-272 1) Sex education and Clause 28 2) Gay male age of consent 3) Young people's sexuality 4) Homosexuality 5) Links between paedophilia and homosexuality 6) Paedophilia IX Conclusioll 272 Chapter Nine Gay Youth Respondents 273-290 Illtroduction 273 9.1 Focus-group illterview 273-278 9.11 Attitude to youth on the gay scene 9.12 Attitudes to MADIS 9.13 MADIS experiences 9.2 LGBT COllferellce 278-281 9.21 Clause 28, age of consent and political activism 9.22 Attitudes to MADIS 9.23 MAD IS Experiences 9.3 ML's accoullt 282-290 9.31 MAD IS experiences First Second Third Fourth 9.32 Explaining child sexual attraction to men 9.33 Sexual identity 9.34 Re-visiting the past and telling stories Conclusioll 290-291 Chapter Ten Male Survivor Accounts 291-301 Introduction 291 10.1 Background alld COli text of abuse 291-293 10.11 Resistance 10.2 Persollal reflections 293-295 10.21 Secrecy and guilt 10.22 Contradictory feelings 10.3 Gellder alld sexuality 295-296 10.4 Persollal relationships 296-298 Attitude to children 10.5 Illdividual consequences 298 x 10.6 Attitude towards sex offenders 299 10.7 Support networks 300-301 Identifying as a survivor Conclusion 301 Chapter Eleven Gay MADIS 302-338 Introduction 302 11.1 Individual histories 303-311 11.11 Attraction toward adult men 11.12 Attraction toward youth 11.13 Previous MADIS experiences 11.14 Adult MADIS 11.2 Most Significant Relationship 312-338 Tables 3(a), (b), (c) 312-313 11.21 Culture / race 11.22 Material dependency 11. 23 Hermeneutics ofMADIS attraction Normalcy Stability Reciprocity Physical Persona and friendship Common interests Problems Power 11.24 Age-specific dynamics Age as insignificant Attraction and identification with younger people Attraction to adult men 11.25 Links with the Gay community Conclusion 338 Chapter Twelve Summary of findings 339-342 Chapter Thirteen Conclusion 343-352 Xl Abstract This thesis examines the construction of male age-discrepant inter generational