Abstract:
About 6 million men in China engage in jiese (abstaining from masturbation and porn) and call themselves jieyou (porn-free self-help community members). In this article, we sought to unpack how the idea of jiese took root in Chinese historical, social, and cultural contexts by interviewing 32 jieyou. Guided by the sensemaking theory, we conducted a critical discourse analysis of participants\' responses and ended up identifying four major themes: embodied experiences, jiese as rational and noble, reconstructing the subjectivity of jieyou, and nationalistic sentiments. We found out that jieyou tended to justify their abstinence by seeking sources of legitimacy in traditional Chinese culture, the ideology of healthism, science, and patriotic discourses. We argue that jiese reflects young men\'s contradictory cultural practices of conservatism, self-medicalization, and neoliberal governmentality.
摘要:
在中国,大约有600万男性从事jiese(放弃手淫和色情),并自称jieyou(无色情自助社区成员)。在这篇文章中,我们试图解开这个概念是如何在中国历史中扎根的,社会,和文化背景,通过采访32杰友。在感官制造理论的指导下,我们对参与者的回答进行了批判性的语篇分析,并最终确定了四个主要主题:具体的经验,Jiese是理性和高尚的,重建杰友的主体性,和民族主义情绪。我们发现,杰友倾向于通过寻求中国传统文化中的合法性来证明他们的禁欲,健康主义的意识形态,科学,爱国话语。我们认为,jiese反映了年轻人矛盾的保守主义文化实践,自我医疗,和新自由主义政府。