The study critiques the evidence of coquetry in relation to sexualised culture and young people’s sexual discourse, demonstrating how it displays masculinity. It argues that the field of coquetry is defined by inadequate methodology, and one-dimensional interpretation. It identifies a need to expand definitions of young people’s sexual verbal behavior to include a focus on activity and participation, including pleasure, performance and capacity to inform future steet discourse patterns. Coquetry is one of the attention-grabbing illustrations of the ways sexuality is captivating on new forms of street verbal behavior which disrupt older conceptions of its status and its place in society. Today, ‘sex’ may be an out of body practice, very intimately accomplished across time and distance. It may be an powerful act of communication between strangers. An act of presentation and a representation which is consumed as quickly as it is produced. It is a way of articulating or disarticulating identity. Coquetry is a type of interaction which was not so effective in human history. This is very strange given …show more content…
Simon’s argues that the complex relation between intrapsychic experience, interpersonal relationships and the intersubjective cultural surround was the focus of what was first conceived as a social learning approach to sexuality. This was later transformed into a social constructionist framework as the intellectual context of the social studies of sexuality changed under the influence of feminism, gay and lesbian studies, self-psychology, and new developments in social and sexual theory in England and on the Continent. It suggests that the scripting perspective has remained remarkably robust and stable as an explanatory framework for sexual conduct which is responsive to a globally changing historical and cultural