SOCIOL 3GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Leather Subculture, Dog Collar, Pedophilia
7 May 2019
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Allows men to be their authentic or real self. As real manly men who desire other real manly men. Diff and legit way to be gendered gay men. Leather serves as a form of sex communication: means of sexual efficiency finding partners w compatible sex interest. Daddy or boy related to types of sex fantasies. Each has a specific meaning desire for type of role. Signify power relships and play w/in sex interactions. Allows members to recognize n respect each others close romantic or sex relships: wearing dog collar symbolizes one is property of another. Relship eroticized connection btnwn older/younger men real and imagined. Eroticized age and status power differentials: master/slave roles also present but less prevalent. No designer clothes, dress shoes, ties, drag, or cologne. Levis, leather, t shirts, motorcycle boots, pilot jakets, uniforms, caps, sweat, bike & assless chaps: working class. Differences in legal, social, and bio defs of.
