The naughty nineties
Subtitle: the triumph of the American libido
By: David Friend
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Twelve
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 631
ISBN-13: 9780446556293
Subjects: Moral conditions; Sex in popular culture; Sexual ethics; Sex scandals; History; Sex
Description: Discusses how the rise of the Internet, reality television, and tabloid culture transformed the boundaries of sexuality in the 1990s, providing first-hand accounts by such individuals as Monica Lewinsky, Joan Rivers, and Jesse Jackson.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-609) and index.
Table of contents: title: A Wednesday in November; title: Down the rabbit hole; title: The night we met the Clintons; title: The Bubba boomer; title: On the third wave; title: Empowerment icons; title: The crying game; title: A vagina travelogue; title: The glory of O; title: Culture warriors, man your battle stations; title: Wanderlust; title: The wild blue web; title: Don't ask, don't tell; title: The age of the long lie; title: The oversexed, underexamined, media-soaked yadda yadda of everyday life; title: Botox, booties, and bods; title: the bust boom; title: Celebrity sin; title: Four moments that changed the narrative; title: The Boomsie twins; title: Objects in mirror are tinier than they appear; title: Shadows on the wall of the man cave; title: Dudes and subdudes; title: Porn goes pop; title: Chez Fleiss; title: Hard currency; title: The lowest-hanging fruit; title: Culture wars, part II; title: The hardener's tale; title: Homo erectus; title: The internet and the intern; title: Afterword: The Trumpen Show.