Censoring sex
Subtitle: a historical journey through American media
By: John E. Semonche
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780742551312; 9780742551329
Subjects: Sex in popular culture; Censorship; Zensur; Erotik; Massenmedien; History
Description: "In this volume, John E. Semonche surveys censorship for reasons of sex from the nineteenth century up to the present. He covers the various forms of American media - books and periodicals, pictorial art, motion pictures, music and dance, radio, television, and the Internet. Despite the varieties of censorship, running from self-censorship to government bans, a common story is told. Censorship, whether undertaken to ward off government regulation, to help preserve the social order, or to protect the weak and vulnerable, proceeds on the assumption that the censor knows best and that limiting the choices of media consumers is justified. Covering the history of censorship of sexual ideas and images is one way of telling the story of modern America."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments --; title: Introduction -- -- 1.; title: Books and periodicals : seduction by the written word and maybe a picture or two -- -- 2.; title: Dirty pictures, naked statutes, etc. : you call that art? -- -- 3.; title: The movies : teaching the wrong lessons and in the dark as well -- -- 4.; title: Music and dance : stirring the senses and unleashing the beast -- -- 5.; title: Home invaders : radio, television and the internet --; title: Epilogue --; title: Endnotes --; title: Index --; title: About the author.