TY - JOUR
T1 - “It Feels So Good”
T2 - Pleasure in Last Sexual Encounter Narratives of Black University Students
AU - Hargons, Candice N.
AU - Mosley, Della V.
AU - Meiller, Carolyn
AU - Stuck, Jennifer
AU - Kirkpatrick, Brett
AU - Adams, Caroline
AU - Angyal, Blanka
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - A sex-positive lens is needed to investigate Black sexuality, which is often depicted through deficit and risk models. Extant sex research leaves an opportunity to understand Black experiences of sexual pleasure untapped. Using narrative inquiry coupled with constructivist grounded theory methods, we examined 18 Black university students’ last sexual encounter narratives. An explication of their disclosure about and meaning making around pleasure is presented. Themes included the following: monitoring mutual pleasure, relegating pleasure to men’s performance, and positioning pleasured possibilities as hope or expectation. Research implications for Black psychology are addressed.
AB - A sex-positive lens is needed to investigate Black sexuality, which is often depicted through deficit and risk models. Extant sex research leaves an opportunity to understand Black experiences of sexual pleasure untapped. Using narrative inquiry coupled with constructivist grounded theory methods, we examined 18 Black university students’ last sexual encounter narratives. An explication of their disclosure about and meaning making around pleasure is presented. Themes included the following: monitoring mutual pleasure, relegating pleasure to men’s performance, and positioning pleasured possibilities as hope or expectation. Research implications for Black psychology are addressed.
KW - Black
KW - last encounter
KW - pleasure
KW - sexuality
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U2 - 10.1177/0095798417749400
DO - 10.1177/0095798417749400
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044394935
SN - 0095-7984
VL - 44
SP - 103
EP - 127
JO - Journal of Black Psychology
JF - Journal of Black Psychology
IS - 2
ER -