Representations of Virgin Young Adult Men in Internet Macro Memes.
Virgin young adult men (VYAM) are often stigmatized for deviating from the social clock. Despite the importance of media in young adults' lives, few studies have examined media representations of VYAM, and none have yet examined the numerous memes about virgin adults. Memes are sets of visual and cu...
| Publicado en: | Sexuality & Culture Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 1527 - 1556 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=164492090&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 164492090 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10955143 DZ0 jtl: Sexuality & Culture issn: 10955143 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2023 vid: 27 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 164492090 10.1007/s12119-023-10077-z ppf: 1527 ppct: 29 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.8MB tig: atl: Representations of Virgin Young Adult Men in Internet Macro Memes. aug: au: Lamoureux, Julie Boislard, Marie-Aude affil: Developmental Sexology Research Chair, Department of Sexology, Université du Québec à Montréal, 455 René-Lévesque Est, H2L 4Y2, Montreal, QC, Canada su: Virginity Young adults Memes Social marginality First sexual experiences sug: subj: Virginity Young adults Memes Social marginality First sexual experiences keyword: Internet Men Qualitative analysis Representation Virgin adults ab: Virgin young adult men (VYAM) are often stigmatized for deviating from the social clock. Despite the importance of media in young adults' lives, few studies have examined media representations of VYAM, and none have yet examined the numerous memes about virgin adults. Memes are sets of visual and cultural elements diffused and replicated on the internet. An increasing number of studies reveal the importance of memes in youth identity construction through the memorable messages they often convey. This is especially prominent for communities whose values or behaviors (or, in the case of VYAM, lack thereof) diverge from mainstream tendencies, such as the social clock. While memes are abundant online discursive tools, they tend to reproduce stereotypes and misrepresent marginalized groups. The objective of the present exploratory study was to describe the memetic representations of virgin young adult men (VYAM) published on the platform 9GAG, which is particularly popular among VYAM. Our hybrid analytical strategy combined content analysis, textual analysis, and tenets of dialectical team-coding, taking inspiration from a past study on media representations of VYA—both men and women—in films and TV series. A sample of 47 memes showed the emergence of three categories grouping 10 VYAM profiles: (1) virginity as a mark of belonging (the integrated and the notorious virgin), (2) virginity as a subjective experience (the voluntary, the sublimated, the naive, and the subversive virgin), and (3) virginity as a burden (the stigmatized, the resigned, the anxious, and the gender double standard-affected virgin). The different profiles support stigma and self-determination discourses relative to virginity experiences. This study sheds light on the stigma surrounding sexual inexperience in adulthood in the memetic culture. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Sexuality & Culture is a copyright of Springer, 2023. All Rights Reserved. item: Sexuality & Culture holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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