Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualization of Western Culture
This book uncovers the significant impact that striptease culture is having on our media, relationships, educational and working lives. It is a welcome and much needed book. Western culture is exhibiting its fascination with sex in new, often surprising 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 of modern culture...
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This book uncovers the significant impact that striptease culture is having on our media, relationships, educational and working lives. It is a welcome and much needed book. Western culture is exhibiting its fascination with sex in new, often surprising 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 of modern culture is the subject widely discussed here. In original chapters, the contributors confront the reality that in all aspects of social and cultural life, sex is being "mainstreamed." They explore film, print and online pornographies, representations of masturbation in film and television, supersexualized advertising, and problem page sex. They also examine young people’s views of sex in mainstream media; women’s use of sexual media in the home, pole dancing as exercise and performance and third wave feminism and the sexualization debate.
Introduction The Sexualization of Culture Feona Attwood Attwood, FeonaPt. 1 Pornography And Pornographication1 The New Pornographies: Representation or Reality? Simon Hardy Hardy, Simon 32 Pleasing Intensities: Masochism and Affective Pleasures in Porn Short Fictions Clarissa Smith Smith, Clarissa 193 'Choke on it, Bitch!': Porn Studies, Extreme Gonzo and the Mainstreaming of Hardcore Stephen Maddison Maddison, Stephen 374 From Porn Chic to Porn Fear: The Return of the Repressed? Brian McNair McNair, Brian 55Pt. 2 Sexualization and Mainstream Media5 The Mainstreaming of Masturbation: Autoeroticism and Consumer Capitalism Greg Tuck Tuck, Greg 776 Supersexualize Me!: Advertising and the 'Midriffs' Rosalind Gill Gill, Rosalind 937 What ever Happened to Cathy and Claire?: Sex, Advice and the Role of the Agony Aunt Petra Boynton Boynton, Petra 111Pt. 3 Striptease Culture8 Too Much Too Young?: Young People, Sexual Media and learning Sam Bragg Bragg, Sam David Buckingham Buckingham, David 1299 Some Texts Do It Better: Women, Sexually Explicit Texts and the Everyday Dana Wilson-Kovacs Wilson-Kovacs, Dana 14710 Keeping Fit in Six Inch Heels: The Mainstreaming of Pole Dancing Samantha Holland Holland, Samantha Feona Attwood Attwood, Feona 16511 BUST-ing the Third Wave: Barbies, Blowjobs and Girlie Feminism Rebecca Munford Munford, Rebecca 183Film and TV Guide 199Bibliography 203Index 221
