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CALL FOR PAPERS

BEYOND DON JUAN: RETHINKING IBERIAN MASCULINITIES
New York, March 31-April 1, 2011

The Catalan Center at New York University
In collaboration with:

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University
Latino Studies Program, New York University
Men and Masculinities, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Centre Dona i Literatura/Càtedra UNESCO “Dones, desenvolupament i cultures”, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
CEDIC (Centre d’Estudis dels Drets Individuals i Col.lectius), Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spain

Exposure to pornography is routine among children and young people, with a range of notable and often troubling effects. Particularly among younger children, exposure to pornography may be disturbing or upsetting. Exposure to pornography helps to sustain young people’s adherence to sexist and unhealthy notions of sex and relationships. And, especially among boys and young men who are frequent consumers of pornography, including of more violent materials, consumption intensifies attitudes supportive of sexual coercion and increases their likelihood of perpetrating assault. While children and young people are sexual beings and deserve age-appropriate materials on sex and sexuality, pornography is a poor, and indeed dangerous, sex educator.

Male supremacist groups (“Father’s Rights”) have caused unspeakable harm to our country and to our children by encouraging abusive fathers, often with little past involvement with their children, to seek custody as a tactic to pressure a mother to return or to punish her for leaving. The following call for support comes from the US-based National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS).

For further discussions of 'fathers' rights' groups, see some of the pieces in XY's collection on 'men's and fathers' rights'.