Mainstreaming sex
Subtitle: the sexualization of Western culture
By: edited by Feona Attwood
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781845118273
Description: "Western culture is exhibiting its fascination with sex in new 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 that is permeating every aspect of modern culture is the subject of this book ... Mainstreaming Sex uncovers the significant impact that new forms of sexualized phenomena are having on our culture, relationships, educational and working lives. In original chapters, the contributors engage with today's public concerns about sexualization, with the continuing debates about the regulation of sexual representations and practices, and with the idea that in all aspects of social and cultural life, sex is being 'mainstreamed'"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the sexualization of culture / Feona Attwood; title: The new pornographies: representation or reality? / Simon Hardy; title: Pleasing intensities: masochism and affective pleasures in porn short fictions / Clarissa Smith; title: 'Choke on it, bitch!': porn studies, extreme gonzo and the mainstreaming of hardcore / Stephen Maddison; title: From porn chic to porn fear: the return of the repressed? / Brian McNair; title: The mainstreaming of masturbation: autoeroticism and consumer capitalism / Greg Tuck; title: Supersexualize me!: advertising and the 'midriffs' / Rosalind Gill; title: Whatever happened to Cathy and Claire?: sex, advice and the role of the agony aunt / Petra Boynton; title: Too much too young?: young people, sexual media and learning / Sara Bragg and David Buckingham; title: Some texts to it better: women, sexually explicit texts and the everyday / Dana Wilson Kovacs; title: Keeping fit in six inch heels: the mainstreaming of pole dancing / Samantha Holland and Feona Attwood; title: BUST-ing the third wave: Barbies, blowjobs and girlie feminism / Rebecca Munford.