Beyond explicit : pornography and the displacement of sex /
Hester, Helen, 1983-
Beyond explicit : pornography and the displacement of sex / Helen Hester. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: critical voices in porn studies -- Feminism, pornography, transgression -- The sex wars : transgressive politics and the politics of transgression -- Rethinking transgression -- Sex and disgust in popular culture -- Intensity and prurience : pornography after sex -- "Not all of it will get your dick hard" : pornography and displacement -- Prurience and postmodernism -- Violence, sympathy, titillation : the body in a state of intensity -- Pornography and the real -- Pornography and the appetite for authenticity -- Autobiography and/as the real -- Sex, trauma, and the authenticity effect -- Conclusion: pornographication and the explosion of the pornographic -- Endnotes -- References -- Index.
"Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept"--Provided by publisher.
9781438449623
Pornography.
Pornography in popular culture.
Sex in popular culture.
Sex.
Electronic Books.
HQ471 / .B496 2014
Beyond explicit : pornography and the displacement of sex / Helen Hester. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: critical voices in porn studies -- Feminism, pornography, transgression -- The sex wars : transgressive politics and the politics of transgression -- Rethinking transgression -- Sex and disgust in popular culture -- Intensity and prurience : pornography after sex -- "Not all of it will get your dick hard" : pornography and displacement -- Prurience and postmodernism -- Violence, sympathy, titillation : the body in a state of intensity -- Pornography and the real -- Pornography and the appetite for authenticity -- Autobiography and/as the real -- Sex, trauma, and the authenticity effect -- Conclusion: pornographication and the explosion of the pornographic -- Endnotes -- References -- Index.
"Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept"--Provided by publisher.
9781438449623
Pornography.
Pornography in popular culture.
Sex in popular culture.
Sex.
Electronic Books.
HQ471 / .B496 2014