Gendered power relations in women-to-men interviews on controversial sexual behavior

Prior, Ayelet; Peled, Einat

doi:10.1080/13645579.2021.1882193

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“…She felt the online setting made it much easier for him to do so, and this undermined her ability to focus. Considering author A’s shock in the context of women’s fear of cyber gender-related harassments (Citron, 2009) reveals the online setting to be another important factor that shapes the already complicated power relations between women interviewers and men interviewees in interviews on controversial sexual behavior (Prior & Peled, 2022).…”

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“…In a way, the shock of Lior's decision transformed into the interviewer's own shock in her reaction to it and her difficulty around being less in control. This indicates that although she hoped to create a more balanced power relationship with interviewees, she was in fact ambivalent-unconsciously-toward the possibility of waiving her powerful position, particularly in the context of the challenges of being a novice woman scholar interviewing men about their controversial sexual experiences (Prior & Peled, 2022).…”

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Online Interview Shocks: Reflecting on Power Relations in Online Qualitative Interviews

Prior,

Lachover

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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The use of online camera-based interviews (OCBI) in qualitative studies is increasing. While recent studies have addressed the benefits and limitations of this method, scholarship still lacks an understanding of it beyond the technicalities. The present study explores how the online setting shapes power relations in qualitative OCBI. The data includes 52 OCBI that were conducted in two different qualitative studies. By applying the concept of interview shocks to the analysis, we gained a deep understanding of how surprising incidents and unexpected moments that occurred during the interviews revealed the role online settings play in shaping the power relations between interviewers and interviewees in OCBI. We identified three types of online interview shocks: the shocking use of the camera, the shocking presence of others during the interview, and the shocking body dispositions in online interviews. The findings demonstrate the different ways that both interviewers and interviewees use the online setting functionalities, or the affordances of OCBI, to position and negotiate their social-cultural-political stand within the interview. Furthermore, the findings uncover the socio-cultural-political context within which the power relations were shaped in OCBI. Thus, we argue that the online setting is yet another aspect that interacts dynamically with the interviewers’ and interviewees’ social locations in shaping the power relations in OCBI. We conclude by highlighting the importance of further studying the qualities of OCBI as a distinct qualitative method that is valid even when other options are available.

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Online Interview Shocks: Reflecting on Power Relations in Online Qualitative Interviews

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Lachover

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…The first author, who conducted the interviews, is a young cisgender White woman with several years of experience in interviewing MPWS. Previous studies showed that MPWS tend to perceive female scholars as judgmental and critical and therefore attempt to maintain a respectable image—particularly when being interviewed by women (Huysamen, 2016; Prior & Peled, 2022). Nevertheless, the interviewer’s familiarity with this population and the phenomenon, and her experience in interviewing MPWS, helped her to foster a relaxed atmosphere in most interviews and a sharing of the participants’ explicit, rich, and nuanced sexual and intimate narratives of SFP.…”

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“It’s probably an addiction—It can't be anything else”: The role of addiction discourse in the self-identity of men who pay for sex.

Prior,

Peled

2024

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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This study is about the role of the addiction discourse in the self-identity of Israeli men who pay women for sex (MPWS). Using the theoretical framework of symbolic interaction, we identified two main contradictory themes regarding the role of the addict identity in the self-narratives of the participants: one presenting the addict identity as contributing to the participants’ positive self-perception and the second as challenging it. Within a social context that often portrays MPWS as perpetrators and abusers, the addiction discourse was a useful source in helping the participants negotiate the dilemma of how to engage in “deviant” acts and still appear to be decent men. While not dismissing the reality of addiction or the distress experienced by some of the participants, we suggest that being “sick” and “having no control over one’s actions” might be considered by some MPWS as preferable explanations to being an outlaw, or villain. However, the inconclusive nature of the sex addiction discourse intimidated some of the participants’ self-identity, thus stressing the need for a clear definition and further theorization of sex addiction, particularly in the context of sex for pay.

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“…This study involved the socially stigmatized and controversial behaviour of paying for sex, and the interviewer and the interviewees seemed to construct and negotiate the meaning of the interview topic based on their prior perceptions of it, and the power dynamics established between them (Prior and Peled, 2022). Most participants appeared to be aware of the stigmatization of their behaviour, and made efforts to present themselves as normative men – as found in other qualitative studies with MPWS (Huysamen, 2016; Prior and Peled, 2019).…”

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How perceptions of masculinity and intimate sexual relationships shape men’s experiences of paying for sex: A qualitative exploration

2022

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This qualitative study explores how perceptions of masculinity, sexual intimate relationships and sex-for-pay (SFP) shape the experiences of men who pay women for sex (MPWS). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 Israeli MPWS. Participants were recruited through an STD community clinic, an anonymous online survey, ads posted in online forums for MPWS, and an organization for the abolition of prostitution. The findings offer a complex understanding of the experiences of MPWS, based on the intersections between their views of sexuality within long-term intimate relationships, and their perceptions of the acceptability of SFP within dominant discourses of masculinity. The findings comprise four experiential patterns of the multi-layered practice of paying for sex: Agonizing, Ambivalent, Intermittent and Simultaneous.

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Gendered power relations in women-to-men interviews on controversial sexual behavior

Cited by 8 publications

References 56 publications

Online Interview Shocks: Reflecting on Power Relations in Online Qualitative Interviews

Online Interview Shocks: Reflecting on Power Relations in Online Qualitative Interviews

“It’s probably an addiction—It can't be anything else”: The role of addiction discourse in the self-identity of men who pay for sex.

How perceptions of masculinity and intimate sexual relationships shape men’s experiences of paying for sex: A qualitative exploration

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