Mediated Sex: Pornography and Postmodern Culture
Mediated sex is about the proliferation of sexual discourse in all its variants, from pornography as narrowly defined to the "s/m chic" of advertising and the art of Jeff Koons and Madonna. It examines the place of these representations in late-20th century, post-HIV and AIDS culture, and in the context of the history of sexual representation from Greek antiquity onward. With extensive reference to examples drawn from the US and the UK, Mediated Sex attempts to make sense of and assess the...
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Mediated sex is about the proliferation of sexual discourse in all its variants, from pornography as narrowly defined to the "s/m chic" of advertising and the art of Jeff Koons and Madonna. It examines the place of these representations in late-20th century, post-HIV and AIDS culture, and in the context of the history of sexual representation from Greek antiquity onward. With extensive reference to examples drawn from the US and the UK, Mediated Sex attempts to make sense of and assess the many contradictory and conflicting claims made about the impact of sexual representation on individuals and societies. those
PrefaceAcknowledgements1Sex, society and the media12A brief socio-sexual history of the late twentieth century93'Let's talk about sex, babee...' sex and the public sphere224Sexual representation, from antiquity to the Internet: history, definition, regulation415The harms pornography does: causes and effects606Consuming pornography: uses, gratifications and meanings897Pornography today1088Art to porn to pop: the pornographication of the mainstream1379Mediated sex: backlash or progress?170Bibliography176Index189
