Young men in love: the (re)making of heterosexual masculinities through “serious” relationships

Abstract

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Relacionamentos amorosos e homossexualidade: revisão integrativa da literatura

“…Sendo assim, considera-se que pode haver relação entre a depressão e o modelo de apego experienciado, o que mostrou que muitas das experiências vividas com os pais refl etem-se na relação amorosa com parceiros, como corroborado por Forrest (2010). Santiago (2007), a partir do referencial psicanalítico, destaca que nos últimos tempos tem sido considerado anacrônico não ver a homossexualidade como um estilo de vida, entendendo-se que caberia a cada indivíduo fazer sua escolha em termos da orientação sexual.…”

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“…However, as with drinking, these gender norms have weakened to some extent in recent decades. For example, Forrest () has shown how young men can reconstruct their masculine identities through their commitment to ‘serious’ relationships, while for young women it is considered less intrinsically unfeminine to initiate sexual encounters, and same‐sex relationships are increasingly acceptable. That said, we draw on the accounts of Scottish teenagers to address the following questions: to what extent did the media feature in these teenagers’ lives; did they think media portrayals of sexual/romantic relationships and drinking influenced their own, or their peers’, behaviour; and how did this behaviour contribute to their construction of their gendered identities?…”

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