Sex and sexuality, social aspects

Rates of sexual violence on college campuses in the U.

While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia, pornography-as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical category-is a modern invention.

Infidelity raises questions: Why do women stay with a cheater?

Explores gender and race as principal bases of identity and locations of power and oppression in American history.

Pimp-controlled sex workers, exploited migrants, domestic servants, and sex trafficking of runaway and homeless youth are just a few of the many forms of sex trafficking and labor trafficking going on all around the world-including in the United States.

More than forty years after Deep Throat arrived on the cultural scene and inspired a sexual revolution, questions about the ethics of pornography and its impact on society are still being asked today and remain as controversial as ever.

Focusing on the US, British and Australian contexts, Object matters addresses the impact of the discourse of safer sex on our lives and in particular the lives of adolescents.

This book provides the first economic analysis of the billion-dollar male sex work market in the United States.

Social commentators, psychologists, and journalists all point to the idea that in the new millennium, traditional masculinity is in crisis.

From the Village Voice sex columnist and award-winning adult film star comes Tristan Taorminos personal vignettes of sex in the citythe real story, not the cleaned-up TV version!

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In the early 20th century Cairo was a vibrant and booming global metropolis.

Thousands have run afoul of Britain's Obscene Publications Act--from Victorian erotica presses to 21st-century dominatrices.

';I learned about the mechanics of female sexual pleasure in my sex ed class.

Feminists have long differed in their view of prostitution.

This is a fully revised and updated new edition of the classic work first published in 1985.

'No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault's discussion' New York Review of BooksThe second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature of desire explores how sexuality was perceived in classical Greek culture.

This timely volume ventures into the subject of sadomasochism in varied aspects of medieval life.

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

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION*** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken' Bernardine Evaristo'Vital, moving and courageous, this is a debut not to be missed' Guardian__________Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonc 's Lemonade and Black Is King.

During a time of significant demographic, geographic, and social transition, many women in early nineteenth-century Montreal turned to prostitution and brothel-keeping to feed, clothe, protect, and house themselves and their families.

This new collection explores for the first time male sex work from a rich array of perspectives and disciplines.

Exploring links between sexuality, society, and state formation, this is the first history of prostitution and its politics in Peru.

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.

Out now: the new book by Dr Fern Riddell, a powerful and entertaining history of sex.

On July 27th, 2015, Colin Cremin overcame a lifetime of fear and repression and came to work dressed as a woman called Ciara.

What does it mean to be naked in public?

Were the 1960s really a great time of liberation and joyful experimentation?

Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as it did on the subordinate societies, the "e;Studies in Imperialism"e; series seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of education and religion, sports history and children's literature.

For much of the 20th century, the underground pornography industry - made up of amateurs and hobbyists who created hardcore, explicit "e;stag films"e; - went about its business hounded by reformers and law enforcement, from local police departments all the way up to the FBI.

This is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally.

Addicted to coke and booze and reliant on selling her body for cash, Katie, the heroine of Clare Gee's bestselling Hooked, can no longer cope with the life she's created for herself.

If you were enthralled by Fifty Shades of Grey you need to read Extra Confessions of a Working Girl, the real-life story of Miss S, a modern Working Girl.

Happiness: as elusive as a working inkjet printer, and as slippery as an eel covered in baby oil.

“A fascinating collection from a group of courageous women who created the first publication to explore sex work in a compelling and intelligent way.

Focusing on the US, British and Australian contexts, Object matters addresses the impact of the discourse of safer sex on our lives and in particular the lives of adolescents.

The ancient Greeks and Romans considered it degrading to both parties yet depicted it prolifically in art and literature.

The secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse in the long nineteenth century.

'This refreshing, unusual book needs to exist.

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers is a groundbreaking look into the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia.

Rates of sexual violence on college campuses in the U.

What happens when we consider Africa through a feminist lens and feminism through an African one?

Décors exotiques et des corps abîmés.

How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectualsphilologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social criticsdeployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society.

Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards, and stereographs.

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

Much has been written about the work of William Blake and some of the religious beliefs that influenced him, but there is a secret history which, until now, has been kept deep beneath the surface in the mystical underground of England in the eighteenth-century.