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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference, 27-29 August
2008, London
Call for papers
Sex and the sexual in the leisure environment: Overcoming the moral straightjacket
(Sponsored by the Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group)
Convenor: Dr Neil Carr (University of Otago)
Researchers in leisure have tended to tread the conventional moral high ground; either avoiding discussion of morally questionable leisure activities or analysing them from a moral perspective. With specific reference to sex this has meant only a limited and rather biased understanding of the complexity of the role this activity/desire plays in the construction of the leisure experience and environment has been developed. This critique calls for the boundaries of research on sex in the leisure environment to move beyond morally defined analyse to fully understand the position and nature of sex in leisure.
In addition to being studied in a limited manner, sex, in the leisure environment, has tended to be viewed by researchers in a way that does not do full justice to its diversity and complexity. Consequently, a further call is made for analysis of sex in the leisure environment that goes beyond just physical intercourse and encompasses all of the senses and diversity of the sexual instead.
Therefore, the papers in this session will explore the position of sex and the sexual in the leisure environment and how it aids construction of and is facilitated and influenced by the leisure environment in a constantly evolving manner that is potentially affected by issues of morality though not necessarily entirely bound by them.
Potential themes for presentations include, but are not limited to:
* The acceptance of public displays of sex and the sexual in the leisure environment
* Issues of ethics, perversion and sex research.
* The construction of places within the leisure environment through sex and the sexual
* The presence, portrayal, and facilitation of non-heterosexual sexual desires and acts within the leisure environment
* The balance between freedom, morality, and safety of the self and the other within the context of sex in the leisure environment
Abstracts (200 words maximum) should be sent to Dr Neil Carr, University of Otago, New Zealand ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) by Tuesday, 12 February 2008
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