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Running head: QUALITATIVE INTERVIEW THEME QUESTIONS

QUALITATIVE INTERVIEW THEME QUESTIONS 5

Qualitative Interview Themes Questions

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Qualitative Interview Themes Questions

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Tell me what think about the determinants of orgasm and sexual enjoyment in hookup and relationship sex among heterosexual women?

Why do feel relationship sex is better for women in relation to orgasm and sexual enjoyment?

Do you think cultural beliefs and processes shape negotiations of heterosexuality in particular cultures?

Why do think workers participate in their own exploitation?

Tell me more about the labor process?

The interview involved five interviewees, namely interviewee V, interviewee W, Interviewee Y, Interviewee X, Interviewee Z. Four themes emerged from the interviewee, including Themes: Sexuality, culture, labor process, gender.

Interviewee V and interviewee W discussed the determinants of orgasm and sexual enjoyment in hookup and relationship sex among heterosexual women. They also discussed why they consider relationship sex is better for women than orgasm and sexual pleasure. The discussion identified four general views regarding the origins of orgasm and sexual enjoyment, including gender equality, partner-specific learning, and technically competent genital stimulation and commitment. During the discussions, it emerged that women often have orgasms in relationships, unlike in hookups. The interviewees highlighted that multiple factors predicted women’s orgasm and sexual pleasure. These factors include sexual practices, commitment, and experience with a specific partner. They noted that orgasm is common in relationship sex due to more sexual practices favorable to women’s orgasms. They also pointed out that a double standard is why relationship sex is better for women, unlike men. It is because both women and men question women’s but not men’s prerogative to enjoyment in hookups. Rather, they believe strongly in women’s and men’s prerogative to enjoyment in relationships. These two interviewees concurred that giving more attention to generating female orgasms in relationships was necessary. The identified sexual practices were identified to enhance women’s organism.

Interviewee W noted that intercourse enhances orgasm in both relationships and hookups, although it reduces pleasure in hookups. Interviewee V added that receiving oral sex and stimulating a woman’s genitalia by her partner increases women’s organism, which is also practiced more frequently in relationship sex. The interviewees noted that the rates of orgasm and pleasure often increase between the initial and consequent hookup. It suggests that partner-specific learning is crucial in increasing orgasm even in the nonexistence of long-term commitment, but it does not mean devotion and affection are not important. The interview information implies that gender inequality also contributes to the relationship/hookup gap in orgasm and sexual pleasure for women. It was clear that both men and women are not concerned with women’s satisfaction in hookups, but men are more attentive to women’s enjoyment in relationships. Thus, it is essential to identify ways of increasing women’s orgasm levels and sexual pleasure.

I discussed with interviewees Y and X their thoughts regarding how cultural beliefs and processes shape negotiations of heterosexuality in particular cultures. They expressed their opinions on why they considered relationships important in girls’ experiences of sexuality. The interviewees noted major variations in cultural beliefs and processes that defined girls’ negotiation of heterosexuality. They said that in some cultures, such as Dutch culture, girls could incorporate their sexual selves into their relationships with their parents. However, they noted that in some cultures, such as the American culture, it was difficult to reconcile sexuality with daughterhood. In Dutch culture, interviewee Y indicated that girls are presumed to have the ability to fall in love and form stable sexual relationships. Whereas interviewee X noted that in the American culture, girls face cynical adult and peer cultures in terms of their ability to sustain feelings and associations that justify the sexual activity. They observed that the observed cultural patterns that influenced heterosexuality play out in policy and policy discussions. Some cultures, such as Dutch, have a consensus on adolescent sexual health policies. In American culture, however, policy debates are controversial, with conflict usually hinged on the presumed antimony between parental control and girls’ sexuality. Broader cultural cynicism regarding the ability of adolescents to sustain feelings and relationships that justify sexual action is evident in American self-restraint policies. From a feminist perspective, the interviewees noted that institutionalized heterosexuality contributes to girls’ sexual subjectivities, which are often taken for granted. However, they informed that heterosexuality is institutionalized differently by policy and culture. It is essential to widen the lens of analysis to cover girls’ relationships with their partners and parents to broaden the empirical lens toward bringing into view the variations in political and cultural institutionalization of heterosexuality.

I discussed with interviewee Z the labor process and how workers participate in their exploitation. The interviewee noted that there are broader implications associated with the case of unpaid women in the VIP. It helps to explain why individuals perform free labor in the growing segments of the labor market. The interviewee noted that workers are increasingly seeking symbolic advantages along with wages, especially in technology, culture, and media industries, due to the shifting belief that work should be self-fulfilling. People are attracted to these industries with the willingness to forgo wages for an opportunity to gain entry into these fields regardless of the situations of bad jobs characterized by debt structures, no benefits, and endemic insecurity. Different motivations have been ascribed to these fields promoting individuals to consent to work for free. In the culture industry, for instance, labor increasingly remains unpaid but framed as a pursuit for a hybrid of work, passions, and leisure, or psychic awards, free goods, or expression. In this regard, cash is not an essential signifier of one’s worth. There are increasingly free labor journalists in the media and music industries. Workers in retail services go for a high-stats brand or hang out with allies regardless of the sometimes below-minimum wages and poor conditions. College athletes are highly unpaid since their labor is framed as compensation through college scholarships and wider recognition. The interviewee noted that industries construct strongly motivating symbolic connotations around economic arrangements. It compels individuals to enter into, be willing, and accept exploitative relationships in the labor process.