Sexed Up: Theorizing the Sexualization of Culture
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- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sexualities
- Vol. 9 (1), 77-94
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460706053336
Abstract
This article reviews and examines emerging academic approaches to the study of ‘sexualized culture’; an examination made necessary by contemporary preoccupations with sexual values, practices and identities, the emergence of new forms of sexual experience and the apparent breakdown of rules, categories and regulations designed to keep the obscene at bay. The article maps out some key themes and preoccupations in recent academic writing on sex and sexuality, especially those relating to the contemporary or emerging characteristics of sexual discourse. The key issues of pornographication and democratization, taste formations, postmodern sex and intimacy, and sexual citizenship are explored in detail.Keywords
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