Fisting Subjectivity: Narratives of Sexual Subjectivity Among Gay Fist-Fuckers

References

• Agnew, J. (2000). Anal manipulation as a source of sexual pleasure. Venereology, 13(4), 169–176. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.558697678010024
   Google Scholar
• Barcelos, C. A. (2019). ‘Bye-bye boobies’: Normativity, deservingness and medicalisation in transgender medical crowdfunding. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 21(12), 1394–1408. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2019.1566971
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barcelos, C. A. (2023). Adventures in fisting. Sex Education, 23(3), 279–286. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2022.2061441
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bauer, R. (2014). Queer BDSM intimacies: Critical consent and pushing boundaries. Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Bengtsson, T. T., & Andersen, D. (2020). Narrative analysis: Thematic, structural and performative. In M. Jarvinen & N. Mik-Meyer (Eds.), Qualitative analysis: Eight approaches for the social sciences (pp. 265–282). Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Bigbuttgeek, & Jazzmatazz. (Hosts). (2023, December 29). Shame (No. 41) [Audio podcast episode]. In Such FFun. Anchor by Spotify. https://anchor.fm/suchffun
   Google Scholar
• Bowling, J., Dodge, B., Banik, S., Rodriguez, I., Mengele, S. R., Herbenick, D., Guerra-Reyes, L., Sanders, S., Dange A., & Anand, V. (2016). Perceived health concerns among sexual minority women in Mumbai, India: An exploratory qualitative study. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 18(7), 826–840. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2015.1134812
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2021a). Can I use TA? Should I use TA? Should I not use TA? Comparing reflexive thematic analysis and other pattern‐based qualitative analytic approaches. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 21(1), 37–47. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12360
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2021b). One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis? Qualitative Research in Psychology, 18(3), 328–352. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2020.1769238
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2022). Conceptual and design thinking for thematic analysis. Qualitative Psychology, 9(1), 3–26. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000196
   Google Scholar
• Brough, T. (2005). First hand: An erotic guide to fisting. Nazca Plains.
   Google Scholar
• Brown, T. O. L. (2010). “If someone finds out you’re a perv:” The experience and management of stigma in the BDSM subculture [ Master’s dissertation, Ohio University, OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center]. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1279225927
   Google Scholar
• Califia, P. (1994). Public sex: The culture of radical sex. Cleis Press.
   Google Scholar
• Cappelletti, S., Aromatario, M., Bottoni, E., Fiore, P. A., Fineschi, V., DiLuca, N. M., & Ciallella, C. (2016). Variability in findings of anogenital injury in consensual and non-consensual fisting intercourse: A systematic review. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 44, 58–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2016.08.013
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Clay, S. (2022). Wild self-care. Somatechnics, 12(1–2), 73–91. https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2022.0378
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Connolly, P. H. (2006). Psychological functioning of bondage/domination/sado-masochism (BDSM) practitioners. Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 18(1), 79–120. https://doi.org/10.1300/J056v18n01_05
   Google Scholar
• Cornell, J., Hearn, J., Ratele, K., & Kessi, S. (2023). Sexual justice and sexualities. In P. Liamputtong (Ed.), Handbook of social sciences and global public health (pp. 1841–1862). Springer.
   Google Scholar
• Crossley, M. (2000). Introducing narrative psychology: Self, trauma and the construction of meaning. McGraw-Hill International.
   Google Scholar
• Cruz, A. (2016). The color of kink: Black women, BDSM, and pornography. NYU Press.
   Google Scholar
• Cruz, A. (2021). Not a moment too soon: A juncture of BDSM and race. Sexualities, 24(5–6), 819–824. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720979309
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Denman, C. (2003). Fisting! Analysing sex beyond the pale. In M. A. Mattoon & R. Hinshaw (Eds.). Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress for Analytical Psychology, Cambridge, UK, (pp. 194–206). Daimon Verlag.
   Google Scholar
• Dimen, M. (2016). Sexual subjectivity. In N. A. Naples; R. C. Hoogland; M. Wickramasinghe, & W. C. A. Wong (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of gender and sexuality studies. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss360
   Google Scholar
• Ellis, H. (1905). Studies in the psychology of sex (Vols. 1-2). Random House.
   Google Scholar
• Erickson, J. M., Slayton, A. M., Petersen, J. G., Hyams, H. M., Howard, L. J., Sharp, S., & Sagarin, B. J. (2022). Challenge at the intersection of race and kink: Racial discrimination, fetishization, and inclusivity within the BDSM (bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, and sadism-masochism) community. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51(2), 1063–1074. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02102-9
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Esin, C. (2011). Narrative analysis approaches. In N. Frost (Ed.), Qualitative research methods in psychology: Combining core approaches (pp. 92–118). Open University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Faccio, E., Casini, C., & Cipolletta, S. (2014). Forbidden games: The construction of sexuality and sexual pleasure by BDSM ‘players’. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 16(7), 752–764. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2014.909531
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fahs, B., & McClelland, S. I. (2016). When sex and power collide: An argument for critical sexuality studies. The Journal of Sex Research, 53(4–5), 392–416. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2016.1152454
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Florêncio, J. (2020). Bareback porn, porous masculinities, queer futures: The ethics of becoming-pig. Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Foucault, M. (1978a). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. Random House.
   Google Scholar
• Foucault, M. (1978b). The history of sexuality: An introduction. (Vol. 1). (R. Hurley Trans.)Penguin.
   Google Scholar
• Freud, S. (1961). The economic problems in masochism. In J. Strachey (Ed.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 19, pp. 159–170). Hogarth Press (Original work published in 1923).
   Google Scholar
• Goerlich, S. (2022). Kink-affirming practice: Culturally competent therapy from the leather chair. Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Halperin, D. (1995). Saint Foucault: Towards a gay hagiography. Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hammack, P. L., & Cohler, B. J. (2009). Narrative engagement and stories of sexual identity: An interdisciplinary approach to the study of sexual lives. In P. L. Hammack & B. J. Cohler (Eds.), The story of sexual identity: Narrative perspectives on the gay and lesbian life course (pp. 3–22). Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hammack, P. L., Frost, D. M., & Hughes, S. D. (2019). Queer intimacies: A new paradigm for the study of relationship diversity. The Journal of Sex Research, 56(4–5), 556–592. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2018.1531281
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hammack, P. L., Mayers, L., & Windell, E. P. (2013). Narrative, psychology, and the politics of sexual identity in the United States: From “sickness” to “species” to “subject”. Psychology and Sexuality, 4(3), 219–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2011.621131
   Google Scholar
• Hansen-Brown, A. A., & Jefferson, S. E. (2023). Perceptions of and stigma toward BDSM practitioners. Current Psychology, 42(23), 19721–19729. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03112-z
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hearn, J., Aboim, S., & Shefer, T. (2018). Sexualities, social justice and sexual justice. In G. Craig (Ed.), Handbook on global social justice (pp. 228–240). Edward Elgar Publishing.
   Google Scholar
• Herrman, B. (1991). Trust – the hand book: A guide to the sensual and spiritual art of handballing. Alamo Square Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hughes, S. D., & Hammack, P. L. (2019). Affirmation, compartmentalization, and isolation: Narratives of identity sentiment among kinky people. Psychology and Sexuality, 10(2), 149–168. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2019.1575896
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jones, Z. (2020). Pleasure, community, and marginalization in rope bondage: A qualitative investigation into a BDSM subculture [ Doctoral dissertation]. Carleton University Repository. https://repository.library.carleton.ca/concern/etds/1g05fc651
   Google Scholar
• Josselson, R. (2011). Narrative research: Constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing story. In F. J. Wertz, K. Charmaz, R. Josselson, R. Anderson, & E. McSpadden (Eds.), Five ways of doing qualitative analysis: Phenomenological psychology, grounded theory, discourse analysis, narrative research, and intuitive inquiry (pp. 224–242). The Guilford Press.
   Google Scholar
• Josselson, R., & Hammack, P. L. (2021). Essentials of narrative analysis. American Psychological Association.
   Google Scholar
• Khan, U. (2014). Vicarious kinks: S/M in the socio-legal imaginary. University of Toronto Press.
   Google Scholar
• Kleinplatz, P. J., & Diamond, L. M. (2014). Sexual diversity. In D. L. Tolman, L. M. Diamond, J. A. Bauermeister, W. H. George, J. G. Pfaus, & L. M. Ward (Eds.), APA handbook of sexuality and psychology, Vol. 1: Person-based approaches (pp. 245–267). American Psychological Association.
   Google Scholar
• Krafft-Ebing, R. V. (1965). Psychopathia sexualis. G. P. Putnam’s Sons ( Original work published 1886).
   Google Scholar
• Liang, M. (2022). Playing with power: Kink, race, and desire. Sexualities, 25(4), 381–405. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720964063
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Maine, A. (2022). Queering marriage: The homoradical and anti-normativity. Laws, 11(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws11010001
   Google Scholar
• Martin, J. H. (2020). Exploring gender subversion and recuperation in anal fisting among gay men. South African Journal of Psychology, 50(3), 336–346. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081246319888975
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Martin, J. H. (2022). A queer(er) temporality: A posthumanist analysis of the performative agencies of time with/in gay men’s anal fisting. Sexualities, 25(4), 406–423. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720967648
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Martin, J. H. (2023a). Fisting intimacy: The sexual scripting of intimacy in gay men’s anal fisting. Psychology and Sexuality, 14(2), 416–431. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2022.2148119
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Martin, J. H. (2023b). No cock needed: Exploring the hapto-erotic assemblage of fist-play in gay men’s anal fisting. Journal of Homosexuality, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2023.2275299
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCormack, M., Measham, F., Measham, M., & Wignall, L. (2022). Kink in an English field: The drinking, drug use and sexual practices of English festival-goers who engage in kink. Sexuality & Culture, 26(5), 1750–1765. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-022-09968-4
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Meyer, C. G., & Chen, H. M. (2019). Vanilla and kink: Power and communication in marriages with a BDSM-identifying partner. Sexuality & Culture, 23(3), 774–792. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-019-09590-x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mishler, E. G. (1986). Research interviewing: Context and narrative. Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Moser, C. (2002). Are any of the paraphilias in the DSM mental disorders? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 31(6), 490–491.
   Google Scholar
• Moser, C. (2023). Differentiating sexual violence from BDSM. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 20(10), 1233–1234. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsxmed/qdad114
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mosher, C. M. (2017). Historical perspectives of sex positivity: Contributing to a new paradigm within counseling psychology. The Counseling Psychologist, 45(4), 487–503. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000017713755
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mosher, C. M., Levitt, H. M., & Manley, E. (2006). Layers of leather: The identity formation of leathermen as a process of transforming meanings of masculinity. Journal of Homosexuality, 51(3), 93–123. https://doi.org/10.1300/J082v51n03_06
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mulcahy, L., Rossner, M., & Tsalapatanis, A. (2021). It’s about time: Investigating the temporal in socio‐legal studies through unstructured interviews. Journal of Law and Society, 48(S1), 104–117. https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12330
   Google Scholar
• Murray, M. (1999). The storied nature of health and illness. In M. Murray & K. Chamberlain (Eds.), Qualitative health psychology: Theories and methods (pp. 47–63). Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Newmahr, S. (2010). Rethinking kink: Sadomasochism as serious leisure. Qualitative Sociology, 33(3), 313–331. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-010-9158-9
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Niederwieser, S. (2013). Fist me! The complete guide to fisting. Bruno Gmuender.
   Google Scholar
• Ortmann, D. M., & Sprott, R. A. (2013). Sexual outsiders: Understanding BDSM sexualities and communities. Rowman & Littlefield.
   Google Scholar
• Paasonen, S. (2018). Many splendored things: Thinking sex and play. Goldsmiths Press.
   Google Scholar
• Parchev, O. (2023). BDSM and total power exchange: Between inclusion and exclusion. Sexualities, 136346072311703. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231170320
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Patton, M. Q. (2002). Qualitative evaluation and research methods (3rd ed.). SAGE.
   Google Scholar
• Prior, E. E., & Williams, D. J. (2015). Does BDSM power exchange among women reflect casual leisure? An exploratory qualitative study. Journal of Positive Sexuality, 1(1), 12–15. https://doi.org/10.51681/1.113
   Google Scholar
• Ratele, K. (2009). Apartheid, antiapartheid and postapartheid sexualities. In M. Van Zyl & M. Steyn (Eds.), The prize/the price: Shaping sexualities in the new South Africa (pp. 290–305). HSRC Press.
   Google Scholar
• Richardson, N., & Locks, A. (2014). Body studies: The basics. Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Riessman, C. K. (1993). Narrative analysis. SAGE.
   Google Scholar
• Riessman, C. K. (2007). Narrative methods for the human sciences. SAGE.
   Google Scholar
• Riessman, C. K., & Liao, T. F. (2004). Narrative analysis. In M. S. Lewis-Beck & A. Bryman (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social science research methods (pp. 705–709). SAGE.
   Google Scholar
• Rofes, E. E. (1991). Snapshots of desire: Surviving as a queer among queers. In M. Thompson (Ed.), Leatherfolk – radical sex, people, politics, and practice (pp. 179–192). Daedalus Publishing Company.
   Google Scholar
• Rubin, G. (1984). Thinking sex: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality. In C. S. Vance (Ed.), Pleasure and danger: Exploring female sexuality (pp. 267–294). Routledge & Keagan Paul.
   Google Scholar
• Rubin, G. (1991). The catacombs: A temple of the butthole. In M. Thompson (Ed.), Leatherfolk – Radical sex, people, politics, and practice (pp. 119–141). Daedalus Publishing Company.
   Google Scholar
• Rubin, G. (1994). The valley of the kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960–1990 [ Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan.
   Google Scholar
• Said, E. (1993). Culture and imperialism. Knopf.
   Google Scholar
• Saville Young, L. (2011). Research entanglements, race, and recognizability: A psychosocial reading of interview encounters in (post-) colonial, (post-)apartheid South Africa. Qualitative Inquiry, 17(1), 45–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800410389443
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shockey, L. R. (2009). The sacred art of fisting. STOP AIDS Project.
   Google Scholar
• Shogan, D. A. (1999). The making of high-performance athletes: Discipline, diversity, and ethics. University of Toronto Press.
   Google Scholar
• Simula, B. L. (2019). A “different economy of bodies and pleasures”?: Differentiating and evaluating sex and sexual BDSM experiences. Journal of Homosexuality, 66(2), 209–237. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2017.1398017
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Slagstad, K. (2023). Visualizing BDSM and AIDS activism: Archiving pleasures, sanitizing history. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 78(3), 270–303. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad012
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sprott, R. A., Herbitter, C., Grant, P., Moser, C., & Kleinplatz, P. J. (2023). Clinical guidelines for working with clients involved in kink. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 49(8), 978–995. https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2023.2232801
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stein, S. K. (2021). Sadomasochism and the BDSM community in the United States. Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Sylla, M., Ossibi, P. E., Allimant, P., Dan, S., & De Parades, V. (2020). Rectal perforation following fist fornication. Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology, 44(5), e126–e128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinre.2019.10.002
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tamale, S. (2011). Researching and theorising sexualities in Africa. In S. Tamale (Ed.), African sexualities: A reader (pp. 11–36). Pambazuka Press.
   Google Scholar
• Tolman, D. (2002). Dilemmas of desire: Teenage girls talk about sexuality. Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• van der Beek, S., & Thomas, L. (2023). “I wish people knew that there are other flavors. Reflections on the representation of poly-kink in mainstream media by polyamorous kinksters in the Netherlands”. Sexualities, 136346072311526. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231152601
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vivid, J., Lev, E. M., & Sprott, R. A. (2020). The structure of kink identity: Four key themes within a world of complexity. Journal of Positive Sexuality, 6(2), 75–85. https://doi.org/10.51681/1.623
   Google Scholar
• Waldura, J. F., Arora, I., Randall, A. M., Farala, J. P., & Sprott, R. A. (2016). Fifty shades of stigma: Exploring the health care experiences of kink-oriented patients. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 13(12), 1918–1929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2016.09.019
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weinberg, T. S. (2023). Research in BDSM: 40 years along. In B. L. Simula; R. Bauer, & L. Wignall (Eds.), The power of BDSM: Play, communities, and consent in the 21st century (pp. 22–42). Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Weiss, M. (2011). Techniques of pleasure: BDSM and the circuits of sexuality. Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Wesely, J. K. (2018). Co-constituting narrative: The role of researcher identity bids in qualitative interviews with women ex-offenders. Criminal Justice Studies, 31(3), 213–229. https://doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2018.1437036
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wignall, L. (2022). Kinky in the digital age: Gay men’s subcultures and social identities. Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Williams, D. J., Prior, E., & Wegner, J. (2013). Resolving social problems associated with sexuality: Can a “sex-positive” approach help? Social Work, 58(3), 273–276. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swt024
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Williams, D. J., & Sprott, R. A. (2022). Current biopsychosocial science on understanding kink. Current Opinion in Psychology, 48, 101473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101473
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wright, S. (2008). Second National Survey of Violence and Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities. National Coalition for Sexual Freedom. https://ncsfreedom.org/images/stories/pdfs/BDSM_Survey/2008_bdsm_survey_analysis_final.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Zhang, Y., & Wildemuth, B. M. (2009). Unstructured interviews. In B. M. Wildemuth (Ed.), Applications of social research methods to questions in information and library science (pp. 222–231). Libraries Unlimited.
   Google Scholar