Sex and sexuality, social aspects

Between the late 1950s and mid-1970s, British cinema experienced an explosion of X-certificated films.

Statistics show roughly 50 percent of men struggle with a pornography addiction; boys are being exposed to porn at younger ages each year; and technology now provides an environment of access where you no longer need to search for porn-it comes looking for you.

In 1998, Sweden was the first country in the world to criminalise the purchase of sexual services, but not the sale of sex.

They discuss how young men are drawn to gang life, how young girls become attracted and attached to the gang members who eventually sell them into prostitution, and why it is so hard to infiltrate and dismantle the distinct but interrelated worlds of the procurer, victim, and client.

This anthology takes the ever-controversial discussion of pornography out of solely academic circles; it expands the questions about porn that academics might tackle and opens the conversation to those who know it best the creators and users of porn.

Before Pornography explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England.

Declining global male fertility rates has generated increased attention on male fertility in recent years.

Anti-porn feminism is back.

The rise and fall of the American feminist anti-pornography movement, discovering its origins in 1970s political and cultural conditions.

A renowned sexologist shows us we're not alone when it comes to problems of sex and love.

How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times?

Civil libertarians characterize prostitution as a "e;victimless crime,"e; and argue that it ought to be legalized.

Traumatised by a terrible event in her childhood, Carla van Raay entered a convent at the age of eighteen.

Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely populated and immensely isolated.

Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth-century England.

Alan Moore, the idiosyncratic, controversial and often shocking writer of such works as Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and V for Vendetta, remains a benchmark for readers of comics and graphic novels.

Proclaimed "e;girl-pervert"e; Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue, a veritable artist at heart, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, love, drugs, and her own firebrand of what it means to live ecstatically.

This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens and his major works.

This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of their sexualities.

Between the late 1950s and mid-1970s, British cinema experienced an explosion of X-certificated films.

Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production.

A study of gendered agency under neoliberal structures, seen through the life stories and narratives of Kenyan sex workers.

Q: Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?

For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination.

The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men-men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical inequalities that make Latin American women into suppliers of low-cost sexual labor.

'Reading [Tell Me What You Want] may be the best thing you ever do for your sex life, your relationships and your self-acceptance' - Geoffrey Miller, author of The Mating Mind, Spent, and MateWhat do we really want when it comes to sex?

Winner of the 2005 Independent Publisher Book Award in Erotica.

A history of activism against the commercial sexual exploitation of American youth from the 1970s to 2015.

Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity.

'It's the kind of book that makes you wonder, 'why wasn't this written before?

With full-frontal genitalia, erections, even actual sex featuring increasingly in films, this explicitness in presentation has caused critical consternation and accusations that such film narratives are pornographic.

"e;Strips porn of its culture-war claptrap .

For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at pornography in all its facets - historical, religious, and cultural.

This book explains religious and sexual freedom law in an accessible way and argues for a compromise that maximizes freedom on both sides.

Sex: how should we do it, when should we do it, and with whom?

This book considers the response to the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa by examining family planning programs and HIV prevention efforts.

Storyville was the infamous red-light district of New Orleans.

Following on from his bestselling study of violence, The Football Factory, John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex.

Join Fran's quest for a "e;normal"e; sex life - featured in The Guardian's Best Shows of Edinburgh Fringe 2018, written and performed by Fran Bushe.

Ask anyone who the biggest name in gay porn is and they'll tell you, "e;Michael Lucas.

To Andy Rooney and the Greatest Generation, sex was only a rumor.

An accessible introduction to important topics that are deeply contested within the Church of England - marriage, gender equality and sexuality.

*****'A sexy, messy, necessary look at polyamory' -Advocate'All the makings of a juicy beach read-romance - sex, deception, and twists - except it's an account of a real-life open relationship.

The original 2003 French version was praised for its depth of understanding and this English translation has been expanded to include a consideration of child prostitution, the involvement of organized crime, and the legalization of prostitution as well as references to the current international literature and additional contextualization for American, British, and Australian readers.

Thoroughly updated to include events that have occurred in the decade since it was originally published, this second edition of Making Work, Making Trouble re-establishes this work as the pre-eminent study of prostitution in Canada.