Beyond explicit
Subtitle: pornography and the displacement of sex
By: Helen Hester
Publisher: SUNY Press; State University of New York Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781438449616; 9781438449609
Subjects: Pornography; Sex in popular culture; Pornography in popular culture; Sex
Description: "Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: critical voices in porn studies; title: Feminism, pornography, transgression; title: The sex wars : transgressive politics and the politics of transgression; title: Rethinking transgression; title: Sex and disgust in popular culture; title: Intensity and prurience : pornography after sex; title: "Not all of it will get your dick hard" : pornography and displacement; title: Prurience and postmodernism; title: Violence, sympathy, titillation : the body in a state of intensity; title: Pornography and the real; title: Pornography and the appetite for authenticity; title: Autobiography and/as the real; title: Sex, trauma, and the authenticity effect; title: Conclusion: pornographication and the explosion of the pornographic; title: Endnotes; title: References; title: Index.