Understanding the Masculinity Crisis: Implications for Men's Services in Hong Kong

Leung, Lai Ching; Chan, Kitman

doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcs122

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“…Services for men are underdeveloped and the existing limited services offered by either government services or NGOs focus heavily on family issues or individual pathology in the form of addictions (e.g., gambling, alcohol, drug) or domestic violence. Such services tend to view work and family obligations as stressors and extra-marital affairs and commercial sex as threats to marriage and family (Equal Opportunities Commission 2012; Leung and Chan 2014). In contrast, the present study shows that commercial sex is an important factor for men's health and wellbeing.…”

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confidence: 51%

“…However, in work, entrepreneurial masculinity has been threatened by economic restructuring from a manufacturing to a service-based economy and the rise of women's education and their participation in the labour market (Equal Opportunities Commission 2012; Leung and Chan 2014). With respect to intimacy, the 'companionate model' of relationship is the norm (Lam, Lam, and Leung 2005, 252) and men (especially the younger generation) are increasingly prone to the 'romantic script' (Mutchler 2000, 35) or to the 'have/hold discourse' (Hollway 1984, 232) that prescribes an ideal trajectory of a relationship through courting, dating, falling in love and then forming a lifelong commitment with a sexually exclusive (monogamous) marriage or noncommercial intimate partnered relationship.…”

Section: Chinese Masculinities and Commercial Sex: Companionate Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Romancing the boundary: client masculinities in the Chinese sex industry

Kong

2015

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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This paper draws on 24 in-depth interviews and 2 focus-group discussions conducted since 2012 with Hong Kong heterosexual men who buy sex in order to examine men's level of physical and emotional engagement with sex workers under two dominant sexual scripts in contemporary Hong Kong. Torn between companionate sexuality, with its companionate model of relationships, and recreational sexuality, with its promiscuous model of sexual pleasure, Hong Kong male clients seek to satisfy their sexual and affective needs through commercial sexual relationships. The term (meaning 'chicken worm', connoting a 'McSex' form of masculinity) refers to those men who seek impersonal sexual release with as many women as they wish, while the term (meaning 'sunken boat' and connoting a 'Titanic' form of masculinity) refers to those men who seek an intense level of emotional intimacy with sex workers. Between these two contrasting types, the majority of respondents fall into a form of 'bounded' masculinity characteristic of men who emphasise control and balance by seeking emotionally responsive women in a time-bound romance. By comparing clients' variations in the level of physical and emotional engagement with sex workers, this paper seeks to understand individual differences in client types and offers a new understanding of Chinese male sexuality and relationship formation, and the corresponding health risks (e.g., sexual, emotional) associated with each type.

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Romancing the boundary: client masculinities in the Chinese sex industry

Kong

2015

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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“…Höjer 2011), divorce (e.g. Erera & Baum 2009), immigration (Roer-Strier et al 2005) and unemployment (Leung & Chan 2014). Only recently has social work literature begun to attend in a more focused manner to the many difficulties that fathers experience with the social services.…”

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Gender‐sensitive intervention to improve work with fathers in child welfare services

Baum

2015

Child & Family Social Work

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A B S T R AC TAlthough the importance of including fathers in child welfare services has been increasingly recognized, social workers' engagement with fathers is still limited and sometimes fraught with negative bias. This paper attempts to lay some needed foundation to meet the challenge of working with fathers. It presents in succinct form the existing knowledge on how fathers experience and manifest their distress and on how they view the social services and social workers. It discusses, in some detail, three main issues -power relations, mutual fear and communication differences -in the interactions between female social workers and the fathers in the social welfare services. And it emphasizes the need for social workers to be aware of how their experiences with their own fathers may affect their interventions with men. It ends with observations and recommendations for developing the gender awareness that is necessary for effective practice with fathers.bs_bs_banner

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“…In Hong Kong, men in particular face workrelated and financial-related stress, and their situations are worsened by the concepts of masculinity held in the society, a lack of gender-specific support services for men and men's general reluctance to seek help. 24 This may explain the increasing incidence of IHD among younger men. Meanwhile, elderly men tend to be more susceptible to socioeconomic and political stressors than women, a concept supported by an association between their mortality rates and environmental stressors.…”

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Trends in ischaemic heart disease hospitalisation and case fatality in the Hong Kong Chinese population 2000–2009: a secondary analysis

2013

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ObjectivesThis study examines the recent trends in ischaemic heart disease (IHD) incidence and case fatality in Hong Kong and explores the possible risk factors.DesignRetrospective observational study.SettingAll public hospitals in Hong Kong.Outcome measuresIncidence rate was defined as the number of IHD inpatient episodes divided by the size of the corresponding population. Short-term and long-term case fatality rate was defined as deaths from all causes occurring within 30 and 31–365 days, respectively, divided by the number of IHD inpatient episodes among the corresponding population.MethodsPoisson and logistic regression models were used to examine the IHD incidence and short-term/long-term case fatality trends, respectively, for different age and sex groups.ResultsIHD incidence was stable in most age groups. However, the incidence in men aged 15–24, 35–44 and ≥85 years showed increasing trends, whereas the incidence in men aged 55–64 years and women aged 35–74 years showed decreasing trends. Overall, the short-term/long-term case fatality rates were unchanged over time for both sexes. Short-term case fatality showed increasing trends in women aged 65–74 and ≥85 years, while long-term case fatality in men aged 55–64 and 75–84 years and women aged ≥75 years showed increasing trends.ConclusionsHong Kong trends resembled those in the USA, England and Wales, showing stable or slow decline in the IHD rates, while increasing trends were observed for some age groups, particularly young adults. Public health promotion efforts should focus on reducing cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension prevalence.

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Understanding the Masculinity Crisis: Implications for Men's Services in Hong Kong

Cited by 31 publications

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Romancing the boundary: client masculinities in the Chinese sex industry

Romancing the boundary: client masculinities in the Chinese sex industry

Gender‐sensitive intervention to improve work with fathers in child welfare services

Trends in ischaemic heart disease hospitalisation and case fatality in the Hong Kong Chinese population 2000–2009: a secondary analysis

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