ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses men's discourses on sex and sexuality in the context of heterosexual relationships. The fact is that the questioning and internal dismemberment of heterosexual masculinity has been less intense than, for instance, the thorough examination of gay masculinities. In contemporary societies, there have been massive changes in the discourses on men's sexuality, ranging from the recognition of male sexual violence against women, children and other men to the alleged emergence of a new male sexuality. Nowadays, an ethic of pleasure, experimentalism and pluralism tends to be ideologically mobilized, though it masks the perpetuation of gender differentiation. Hegemonic masculinity is, in fact, an antinomic construction permeated by symbolic dualities that are intimately tied to sexuality. The stereotypical complicity between the male as predator and the male as provider is exemplary of traditional masculinity, posing some difficulties whenever we attempt to put forward a definition of what really represents hegemonic masculinity.
