The Sexual Body as a Meaningful Home: Making Sense of Sexual Concordance

The past 20–30 years have provided plenty of new empirical data on women’s sexuality, a topic often theorised as puzzling and unexplainable. In recent discussions, a controversial issue has been the phenomenon of sexual concordance, i.e. the correlation between the self-reported, subjective assessme...

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Autor principal:	Niineste Rita
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	phenomenology sexuality sexual concordance sexual arousal meaning-making body embodiment home feminist philosophy feminist theory Philosophy (General) B1-5802
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6cca46242e1e49779bd50afc290bafb92021-12-05T14:11:01ZThe Sexual Body as a Meaningful Home: Making Sense of Sexual Concordance2543-887510.1515/opphil-2020-0183https://doaj.org/article/6cca46242e1e49779bd50afc290bafb92021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0183https://doaj.org/toc/2543-8875The past 20–30 years have provided plenty of new empirical data on women’s sexuality, a topic often theorised as puzzling and unexplainable. In recent discussions, a controversial issue has been the phenomenon of sexual concordance, i.e. the correlation between the self-reported, subjective assessment of one’s sexual arousal and the simultaneous bodily response measured directly on the genitals. In laboratory-based assessments, sexual concordance has been observed to be on average substantially lower in women than in men, although the reasons for the considerable gender difference are still open to debate. Drawing on a phenomenological approach to culture-dependent meaning-formation and on feminist social theory of everyday sexuality, I argue that the reasons behind women’s low sexual concordance can be found neither in their minds nor their bodies but in the way meaning-making processes function in human sexual experiences. Women’s first-person perspectives on their own sexuality have historically played only a marginal role in the creation of socially endorsed sexual meanings, yet these shared meanings have a profound influence on how individuals make sense of their bodily experiences in sexual situations.Niineste RitaDe Gruyterarticlephenomenologysexualitysexual concordancesexual arousalmeaning-makingbodyembodimenthomefeminist philosophyfeminist theoryPhilosophy (General)B1-5802ENOpen Philosophy, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 269-283 (2021)
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description	The past 20–30 years have provided plenty of new empirical data on women’s sexuality, a topic often theorised as puzzling and unexplainable. In recent discussions, a controversial issue has been the phenomenon of sexual concordance, i.e. the correlation between the self-reported, subjective assessment of one’s sexual arousal and the simultaneous bodily response measured directly on the genitals. In laboratory-based assessments, sexual concordance has been observed to be on average substantially lower in women than in men, although the reasons for the considerable gender difference are still open to debate. Drawing on a phenomenological approach to culture-dependent meaning-formation and on feminist social theory of everyday sexuality, I argue that the reasons behind women’s low sexual concordance can be found neither in their minds nor their bodies but in the way meaning-making processes function in human sexual experiences. Women’s first-person perspectives on their own sexuality have historically played only a marginal role in the creation of socially endorsed sexual meanings, yet these shared meanings have a profound influence on how individuals make sense of their bodily experiences in sexual situations.
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The Sexual Body as a Meaningful Home: Making Sense of Sexual Concordance

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