Rethinking the Dimension of Male Sexuality and Masculinity

Our society is constructed with the fixed dimensions of manliness and manhood which influences male female relationships, men’s construction of sexual risk, safety and pleasure, and meanings of sex and sexual health concerns. Unfortunately, Bangladeshi men’s manhood and relationships with women are conveyed within the obligatory marital framework of patriarchy. Men are always considered as the beneficiaries of patriarchy. However, society tries to ignore the fact that men are also vulnerable due to patriarchy. Such an alternative dimension of male sexuality and masculinity can be constructed through empowering men to value the role of women. This can be done through distributing information on sexual pleasure, eroticism, men-women’s body, and their sexual needs. Men themselves need to reconstruct their role as caring husbands and fathers. Thus social mindset can be changed and years of inequality will come to an end.
This thesis paper concerns male sexuality as revealed by men living in contemporary urban and rural Bangladesh. Significant meanings men attribute to sexual acts, pleasure, pain, risk and safety in multiple social realities were discovered in this paper.

Reference:
Khan, S. I. (2004).Male sexuality and masculinity : implications for STIs/HIV and sexual health interventions in Bangladesh.

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