Making Sense of Jiese: An Interview Study of Members from a Porn-Free Self-Help Forum in China.

About 6 million men in China engage in jiese (abstaining from masturbation and porn) and call themselves jieyou (porn-free self-help community members). In this article, we sought to unpack how the idea of jiese took root in Chinese historical, social, and cultural contexts by interviewing 32 jieyou...

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Publicado en:Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 385 - 398
Autores principales: Zou, Wenxue, Zhang, Xinyu, He, Jingqi
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Jan2023
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          Department of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
          School of Communication Studies, Kent State University, 157 Taylor Hall, 625 Loop Road, 44242, Kent, OH, USA
          School of Ethnology and Sociology, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China
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