ABSTRACT
In an era in which gender meanings and relations are being examined, destabilized, and renegotiated on every social and personal front, feminists must analyze any text on health, sexuality, bodies, children, domestic life, work life, emotion, laws, power—on any domain or metaphor of social life—as being at least in part about gender, and therefore as a location to be scrutinized. John Gagnon has argued for the past twenty years that gender training and experiences during development result in fundamental gender differences in adult sexual scripts and responses. Men's experiences in adolescence with genital arousal and orgasm, in conjunction with homosocial competitiveness and identification, create expectations and conditioning that bias men toward a goal-oriented, genital, self-focused sexual style. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) sexual dysfunction classification is laid out in a scrupulously gender-equal way.
