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.
Author(s): Feona Attwood
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 254
Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction: The Sexualization of Culture -- Feona Attwood......Page 14
PART I. PORNOGRAPHY AND PORNOGRAPHICATION......Page 26
1. The New Pornographies: Representation or Reality? -- Simon Hardy......Page 28
2. Pleasing Intensities: Masochism and Affective Pleasure in Porn Short Fictions -- Clarissa Smith......Page 44
3. 'Choke on it, Bitch!': Porn Studies, Extreme Gonzo and the mainstream of Hardcore -- Stephen Maddison......Page 62
4. From Porn Chic to Porn Fear: The Return of the Repressed? -- Brian McNair......Page 80
PART 2. SEXUALIZATION AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA......Page 100
5. The Mainstream of Masturbation: Autoeroticism and Consumer Capitalism -- Greg Tuck......Page 102
6. Supersexualize Me!: Advertising and 'Midriffs' -- Rosalind Gill......Page 118
7. Whatever Happened to Cathy and Claire?: Sex, Advice and the Role of the Agony Aunt -- Petra Boynton......Page 136
PART 3. STRIPTEASE CULTURE......Page 152
8. Too Much Too Young?: Young People, Sexual Media and Learning -- Sara Bragg and David Buckingham......Page 154
9. Some Texts Do It Better: Women, Sexually Explicit Texts and the Everyday -- Dana Wilson-Kovacs......Page 172
10. Keeping Fit in Six Inch Heels: The Mainstreaming of Pole Dancing -- Samantha Holland and Feona Attwood......Page 190
11. Bust-ing the Third Wave: Barbies, Blowjobs and Girlie Feminism -- Rebecca Munford......Page 208
Film and TV Guide......Page 224
Bibliography......Page 228
Index......Page 246
