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Masculinity and Masochism in Strip Culture by MU9966 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Considering the possibility that there might be something utopic about strip clubs, this paper traces the relays between power and powerlessness, feminism and antifeminism, utopia and dystopia within a broad psychoanalytic framework. It is interested in analyzing the social and psychological stakes for the male heterosexual consumer of strip culture. Strip clubs, this paper argues, are the special site of a masculine debasement amounting to a kind of moral masochism, to use the Freudian typology
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- MU9966
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- EN