Pierre Brasseur

Université Libre de Bruxelles | ULB · Institute of Sociology

Abstract : This issue, supported by the executive committee of the French Sociology Association, would like to contribute to filling these gaps by including articles that offer an empirical analysis (quantitative or qualitative) of the content of training programs with a sociological component of the audience for these programs, and of the professi...

Sexuality was long considered illegitimate or, like love, to suspend force and power relations. Researchers in the social sciences of sexuality maintain that it is essential to "de-exceptionalize" its study, to contextualise it in "scripts", and to refuse to "interpret sexual conduct as the result of an opposition between a natural sexual drive and...

This article aims to analyze the rhetoric used by the advocates of sexual assistance to make this practice a cause to defend, rhetoric that mixes the use of emotions and figures, lay expertise and scholarly expertise. After a brief presentation of this practice, its origins and its current developments, the article will describe the awareness-raisi...

in Alexandra Oeser, Maud Simonet (dir.), Work3-Travail domestique, travail professionnel, travail politique, Presses universitaires de Nanterre, 2023, pp.91-100.

Dans son livre Désirer comme un homme — Enquête sur les fantasmes et les masculinités, Florian Vörös propose une sociologie à la fois des affects, des émotions et du fantasme, et plus particulièrement chez des hommes qui visionnent des contenus pornographiques sur internet. Le terrain se compose d’interviews avec 14 hommes gays, 13 hétérosexuels, 3...

Dans "The Tragedy of Heterosexuality", Jane Ward explore comment l'hétérosexualité est considérée comme supérieure à l'homosexualité à travers des pratiques et rituels spécifiques. Selon Ward, l'hétérosexualité n'est pas vraiment désirable mais plutôt problématique, avec ses normes et règles strictes. Ces règles promettent le bonheur et la satisfac...

Objectives This article reviews both the political considerations related to sexuality that were dominant in French institutions supplying accommodation for the “sick” and “handicapped” during the 1970s and the development of mixed (male/female) institutions.Method Based on archives (mainly the consultation of the principal journals on disabilities...

In France, since the early 2000s, groups of people with disabilities have mobilized to elaborate new ways of thinking about their sexuality and what a "sexual condition" of the disabled might look like. This paper proposes a socio-historical analysis of that situation: it seems into the 1950s and particularly in the writings of Jean Adnet, a disabl...

This chapter draws on an interview-based field survey to analyze camgirls’ professional engagement drivers and professional learning curves. We show that women start sex camming for economic reasons and that those who work long-term in sex camming have specific skills they can sell in the business. Camgirls invest their time, bodies, and feelings i...

Disability is a new issue for French social sciences interested in Gender and sexuality. For this contribution, we favour a thematic division. First, addressing the intersections between disability and Gender, then between disability and sexuality, while focusing on articulating these different fields of analysis.

This article proposes the presentation and analysis of an interview, a ‘case study, around the interactions between disabilities, sexuality, feelings, and old age in order to show what could be, and what was, the sexuality and love of Tristan, who describes himself as an ‘old disabled Pd’. This article seeks to question the destiny of the French ma...

The Hygiene administrative database is used in the quantitative part. This anonymized database does not allow a return to the people surveyed. Therefore, an ad hoc recruitment was made to conduct about 30 biographical interviews (of about one h 30) with men and women with MS aged between 34 and 63. Results The first results show that being placed...

For this contribution, we will focus on a thematic division, first addressing the intersections between disability and gender, then between disability and sexuality, while looking at the articulation of these different fields of analysis. Almost all of these works are situated in the perspective of disability studies, i.e. a militant, political and...

This issue, supported by the executive committee of the French Sociology Association, would like to contribute to filling these gaps by including articles that propose an empirical analysis (quantitative or qualitative) of the content of training programs with a sociological component of the public for these programs, and of the professional future...

Studying sexuality from a socio-economic perspective is complex, which is probably why it is not so common. A look at past issues of the Revue française de socio-économie shows that only one article has dealt with sexuality to date, and it is not the focus of the analysis. In the article devoted to the treatment by Pôle Emploi of classified ads for...

Introduction au numéro "Les Economies de la sexualité"

Over the last two decades, taking note of the digitization movement of contemporary societies, many social science works have been interested in how the development of computer tools and devices reconfigures our social practices. Researchers have thus questioned how dating websites, new exchange platforms and socio-numerical networks shape or trans...

Sexual assistance for disabled people in France: what is the problem?

First, we will review a quick presentation of what sex camming is. Secondly, we will check the methodological setup, emphasizing the qualitative dimension. And in a third time, we will return to using the socio-numerical networks that capture the claw's attention and creation.

This chapter studies sexcamming, an economic activity whereby individuals sell their charms on the web to an audience of Internet users1 . These individuals – or sex models to use the generic term – pose in front of a webcam chatting live with viewers or giving erotic or pornographic performances in return for payment in tokens. Contact is made bet...

Over the last ten years, the online platform economy has grown extremely fast. Many studies have analysed the emergence of platform capitalism and its effects on labour, employment, and consumption (Scholz, 2013; van Doorn, 2017; Abdelnour, Méda, 2019; Naulin, Jourdain, 2019; Casilli, 2019). While some types of platforms have been studied in depth...

Several events contributed to the emergence of the claim in France. Among these is the vote of the 2005 law, which provides for compensation for all the consequences of disability. If any rights have been conquered (work, housing, accessibility, education, etc.), the field of "affective and sexual life" is the "last barrier to be removed". The idea...

The topic of sexuality for people with disabilities has received media attention recently. The recent questioning of sexual assistance has much to do with this (Brasseur, 2017; Nayak, 2013) even though there are only a few dozen assistants for a few hundred assistances in France. However, the subject of "sexuality and disability," far from being re...

You are about to read a special issue of Socio-logos because the AFS and the ASES have produced it. Secondly, it succeeds in being the last of the journal’s old formula and the first of its new one. It has been elaborated for more than a year within the former Executive Committee of the Association française de Sociologie (AFS) by its editorial boa...

This thesis explores the emergence of a public issue in France: sexual assistance to people with disabilities. Based on interviews with supporters and opponents of sexual assistance, observations during training sessions or conferences on sexual assistance, and a corpus composed of archives, journals, specialised works and grey literature, the aim...

This thesis investigates the emergence of a public issue in France: sexual assistance to disabled people. The goal is to analyse the genesis and deployment of this new activity using interviews with supporters and opponents of sexual assistance services, observations during sexual assistance training sessions or conferences, and a corpus composed o...

Chapter 2 of the sociology thesis "The invention of sexual assistance: sociohistory of a French public problem. French Version. English version is available.

This article aims to analyze the rhetoric used by advocates of assisted sex to make this practice a cause to be defended, rhetoric that mixes emotions and figures, lay expertise and scholarly expertise. After a brief presentation of this practice, its origins and its current developments (1), it will describe the awareness-raising devices used by t...

Disability is a new issue for French social sciences interested in gender and sexuality. It has only recently appeared in review works, such as the Dictionnaire des sexualités [Mossuz-Lavau, 2014]. It was not until Introduction à la Sociologie du handicap [Ville, Ravaud, & Fillion, 2014] that a French review book took a frontal interest in the ques...

Objectives This article reviews both the political considerations related to sexuality that were dominant in French institutions supplying accommodation for the “sick” and “handicapped” during the 1970s and the development of mixed (male/female) institutions. Method Based on archives (mainly the consultation of the principal journals on disabiliti...

In France, the question has been raised for some years as to whether legislation in favor of assisting the sexuality of people with disabilities is legitimate. This question has been stimulated by the claims of certain groups of people with disabilities, whose figurehead is the disabled activist Marcel Nuss. If France had already made an echo in th...

Mars 2013. Le Comité consultatif national d’éthique pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé (CCNE) rend son 118e avis. Cette institution, surnommée « le gardien des corps », a pour habitude de rendre des avis dits « objectifs » sur des champs de la vie sociale qui posent problème dans le domaine de l’éthique. Le CCNE avait été saisi en 2011 par...

In France, since the early 2000s, groups of people with disabilities have mobilized in order to elaborate new ways of thinking about their sexuality and about what a "sexual condition" of the disabled might look like. This paper proposes a socio-historical analysis of that situation: it looks into the 1950s and particularly into the writings of Jea...

Based on an interview survey carried out with people with physical disabilities, this article seeks to show that, contrary to what many quantitative surveys suggest, there is no such thing as a specifically disabled love. If the notion of disability tends to reify our representations of love among these same people, we must be careful not to draw t...