Title: Beyond explicit : pornography and the displacement of sex /
Authors: Hester, Helen, 1983-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Pornography; Pornography in popular culture.; Sex in popular culture.; Sex; Popular culture; Pornography; Sex
Abstract: "Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: critical voices in porn studies -- Feminism, pornography, transgression -- The sex wars : transgressive politics and the politics of transgression -- Rethinking transgression -- Sex and disgust in popular culture -- Intensity and prurience : pornography after sex -- "Not all of it will get your dick hard" : pornography and displacement -- Prurience and postmodernism -- Violence, sympathy, titillation : the body in a state of intensity -- Pornography and the real -- Pornography and the appetite for authenticity -- Autobiography and/as the real -- Sex, trauma, and the authenticity effect -- Conclusion: pornographication and the explosion of the pornographic -- Endnotes -- References -- Index.