Mainstreaming sex : the sexualization of Western culture
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Mainstreaming sex : the sexualization of Western culture
I.B. Tauris, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-219) and index
Description based on: 2014 reprinting
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Description
From cyber porn to striptease culture, this trailblaising book uncovers the shockingly fascinating new ways that western society is being sexualized. We don't realise how far the 'pornogrification' of culture has reached - this book does and discusses it graphically but responsibly. Media interest in this subject is huge."Mainstreaming Sex" uncovers the significant impact, hitherto only half glimpsed, that striptease culture is having on our media, relationships, educational and working lives. It is a welcome and much needed book.Western culture is exhibiting its fascination with sex in new, often surprising ways. Pole dancing is a form of keep fit, porn stars find work as agony aunts, pornography itself is just 'a mouse click away', and phone sex, email affairs and cybersex are now part of our everyday lives. This sexualization of modern culture is the subject widely discussed here.In original chapters, the contributors confront the reality that in all aspects of social and cultural life, sex is being 'mainstreamed'. They explore film, print and online pornographies; representations of masturbation in film and television, supersexualized advertising, and problem page sex.
They also examine young people's views of sex in mainstream media; women's use of sexual media in the home; and, pole dancing as exercise and performance and third wave feminism and the sexualization debate.
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: The Sexualization of Culture
Feona Attwood
Section 1: Pornography and Pornographication
The New Pornographies: Representation or Reality?
Simon Hardy
Pleasing Intensities: Masochism and Affective Pleasures in PornShort Fictions
Clarissa Smith
"Choke on it, Bitch!": PornStudies, Extreme Gonzoand the Mainstreaming of Hardcore
Stephen Maddison
From Porn Chic to Porn Fear: the Return of the Repressed?
Brian McNair
Section 2: Sexualization and Mainstream Media
The Mainstreaming of Masturbation: Autoeroticism and Consumer Capitalism
Greg Tuck
Supersexualize Me!: Advertising and the 'Midriffs'
Rosalind Gill
Whatever Happened to Cathy and Claire?: Sex, Advice and the Role of the Agony Aunt
Petra Boynton
Section 3: Striptease Culture
Too Much Too Toung?: Young People, Sexual Media and Learning
Sara Bragg & David Buckingham
Some Texts Do It Better: Women, Sexually Explicit Texts and the Everyday
Dana Wilson-Kovacs
Keeping Fit in Six Inch Heels: The Mainstreaming of Pole Dancing
Samantha Holland & Feona Attwood
BUST-ing the Third Wave: Barbies, Blowjobs and Girlie Feminism
Rebecca Munford
Appendices
Film and TV Guide
Bibliography
Index
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