A hypersexual society
Subtitle: sexual discourse, erotica, and pornography in America today
By: Kenneth C. W. Kammeyer.
Publisher: Plagrave Macmillan; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Sex in popular culture -- United States; Erotica -- United States; Pornography -- United States; Social norms
Description: "America today is a hypersexual society. Sexual discourse, erotica, and pornography are pervasive in the culture. Sexual materials, many times extending into erotica and pornography, are found in the consumer world, academia, sex therapy, the publishing world, mass media (especially radio, television and movies) and the Internet. The sexual materials found in all these areas of American society provoke relentless opposition by groups and individuals who want to repress or censor sexual materials. The combined effects of those who promote and produce sexual materials, and those who try to suppress them, lead to a society permeated with contentious sexual discourse."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Sexual materials and pornography in today's society; title: Theoretical foundation and conceptual tools; title: Repression and censorship : early and continuing attempts to suppress sexual materials and pornography; title: Sex on the printed page : from literary classics to x-rated comics; title: Sex in academe : from kinsey's research to porn studies; title: Sex therapy : the profession, the business, the hucksters, and the spammers; title: Sex on film : stag movies, porn flicks, hollywood nc-17, videos and dvds; title: Radio and television : from cautious beginnings to shock jocks and anything-goes cable and satellite TV; title: Sex on the internet : unlimited and uncontrolled; title: The hypersexual society : where we are and what lies ahead.