Fucking failures: The future of fat sex

Abstract

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Dialogic essentialism and protecting against stigma within the fat admirer community

“…FAs challenge prevailing beliefs about fat women, such as their sexual desperation, their inability to be viewed as sexually desirable, or how "fat women [are treated]…as a protected category incapable of granting sexual consent" (Goode 2002, 531). Other scholars see FAs as sexually predacious and fetishistic, especially when gender inequality is reinforced (Saguy 2002, Colls 2012, White 2016. Saguy (2002) and Colls (2012) believe that in settings such as the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), women's sexual partner selection is limited and the competition for affection places emphasis on the male gaze.…”

Fat studies – et felt, der vokser

“…Dertil introducerede forlaget Taylor & Francis i 2012 det interdisciplinaere tidsskrift Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, der belyser og udforsker tykhed som en intersektionel kategori, der konstitueres i samspil med en raekke andre kategorier som fx alder, race, klasse, køn, seksualitet, etnicitet og kropskapabelhed. 4 Yderligere et eksempel er temanummeret «Theorizing fat sex», som tidsskriftet Sexualities udgav i 2016 indeholdende bidrag som: «Fat male sexuality: The monster in the maze» (Harker 2016) og «Fucking failures: The future of fat sex» (White 2016).…”