Sex as Commodity Single and Partnered Men's Subjectification as Heterosexual Men

This article draws on a discursive analysis of individual and group interviews with forty-five heterosexual men to examine how men take up and resist discourses of sexuality and gender to (re)produce a recognizable heterosexual subjectivity. It explores the commodification of sex in men's accounts and the various practices men described undertaking to obtain sex. The article argues that the contexts in which men (re)produce sexual subjectivity have significant implications for how they negotiate the discursive positions available to them. Three themes are presented to demonstrate the different discursive practices undertaken by single and partnered men. Finally, the article explores the difficulties, dilemmas, and ambivalences produced by the project of subjection and how individual men resolve them.