Open AccessThe Effect of Masculinity on Sexual Health Practices among College‐Age Students in the United States
Author(s) -
Graffy Peter
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
student anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2330-7625
DOI - 10.1002/j.sda2.20110202.0004
Subject(s) - masculinity , reproductive health , realm , downtown , gender studies , power (physics) , human sexuality , psychology , sociology , medicine , population , demography , political science , law , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics
My study investigates the realm of masculinity and its effect on our health system, specifically contraception. The purpose of this investigation is to examine the range of effects which masculinity produces in our society by way of shaping American sexual health practices. I conducted my fieldwork research in the environment veritably deemed the most sexual and “genderized”: college campus. The college is located in a small Midwest town of 8000 where most of my research occurred outside a downtown bar, Roscoe';s. I distributed contraception in the form of condoms to gauge the responses of my peers when it came to sexual health. I argue that masculinity has a significant impact through the social power which it wields over the American system of sexual health.