"This book presents an innovative cross-disciplinary report on research across the humanities and social sciences about the relationship between pornography and its consumers. For policy makers and the wider public it can be difficult to obtain a clear understanding of the curre…
"This book investigates how teenage girls in South Africa encounter and consume pornography, situating their experiences within wider sociocultural and affective relations of power. Whereas many discussions of pornography are preoccupied with teenage girls as passive and vulnera…
This volume contains theoretical essays, research reports and book reviews examining the topics of prostitution, pornography and other forms of commercialization of sexuality.
"Not For Sale brings the feminist movement against prostitution and pornography into the 21st century, showing how these industries cause grievous harm to those within them while undermining the possibilities for gender justice, human equality, and truly diverse and joyful sexua…
With its mix of personal stories, theory, research, testimony and accounts of current activism, 'Not For Sale' will be an invaluable resource for those seeking to inform themselves about the realities of the 'sex business' and will serve to strengthen and broaden feminist resist…
Can the pornographic be said to have existed in Greece and Rome? This new group of essays points to some striking similarities between our culture and those of the ancient world, challenging Foucauldian assumptions about the nature of sexuality. Covering such topics as vase pain…
Exploring music videos, Cosmogirls, Gaydar online forums, streetadvertising, retro pin-ups, film and educational sex videos the contributors describe the transformation of porn in today's media and its impact on culture.
""Pornification" presents an international overview of how pornography - from softcore to hardcore, gay to straight, female to male, black to white - infiltrates and proliferates through our media." "Exploring music videos, Cosmogirls and Gaydar online forums, H&M's street adver…
"This book investigates the causes and consequences of image-based sexual abuse in a digital era. Image-based sexual abuse refers to the taking or sharing of nude or sexual photographs or videos of another person without their consent. It includes a diversity of behaviours beyon…
"To all intents and purposes, Henry Spencer Ashbee was a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman. But his well-upholstered chambers in Gray's Inn concealed a shocking secret: Ashbee's vast collection of erotica and pornography, thousands of volumes strong." "Acclaimed bio…