ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of the ways in which sex and sexualities are mediated in modern media and everyday life.

The 40 chapters in this volume offer a snapshot of the remarkable diversification of approaches and research within the field, bringing together a wide range of scholars and researchers from around the world and from different disciplinary backgrounds including cultural studies, education, history, media studies, sexuality studies and sociology.

The volume presents a broad array of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives, as authors address a series of important questions that have consequences for current and future thinking in the field. Topics explored include post-feminism, masculinities, media industries, queer identities, video games, media activism, music videos, sexualisation, celebrities, sport, sex-advice books, pornography and erotica, and social and mobile media.

The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is an essential guide to the central ideas, concepts and debates currently shaping research in mediated sexualities and the connections between conceptions of sexual identity, bodies and media technologies.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

part I|99 pages

Representing sexualities

chapter 1|12 pages

The normal body on display

Public exhibitions of the Norma and Normman statues

chapter 3|11 pages

Representing trans sexualities

chapter 5|10 pages

Representing gay sexualities

chapter 6|11 pages

Fifty shades of ambivalence

BDSM representation in pop culture

chapter 7|11 pages

The politics of fluidity

Representing bisexualities in twenty-first-century screen media

chapter 8|10 pages

Heterosexual casual sex

From free love to Tinder

chapter 9|13 pages

Representing queer sexualities

part II|131 pages

Sex genres

chapter 10|10 pages

Erotica

chapter 11|13 pages

A history of slash sexualities

Debating queer sex, gay politics and media fan cultures

chapter 12|11 pages

Erotic manga

Boys’ Love, shonen-ai, yaoi and (MxM) shotacon

chapter 13|10 pages

Ways of showing it

Feature and gonzo in mainstream pornography

chapter 14|12 pages

From the scene, for the scene!

Alternative pornographies in contemporary US production

chapter 15|11 pages

‘Not on public display’

The art/porn debate

chapter 16|9 pages

User-generated pornography

Amateurs and the ambiguity of authenticity

chapter 17|10 pages

Celebrity sex tapes

part III|103 pages

Representing sex

chapter 22|9 pages

Videogames and sex

chapter 23|11 pages

Sex and celebrity media

chapter 24|9 pages

Sex and music video

chapter 26|11 pages

Media representations of women in action sports

More than ‘sexy bad girls’ on boards

chapter 27|10 pages

Sex and horror

chapter 28|9 pages

Sex in sitcoms

Unravelling the discourses on sex in Friends

chapter 29|10 pages

Sex and reality TV

The pornography of intimate exposure

chapter 30|9 pages

It’s all about your sex appeal

Deconstructing the sexual content in women’s magazines

chapter 31|12 pages

The Invisibles

Disability, sexuality and new strategies of enfreakment

part IV|97 pages

Deconstructing key figures

chapter 32|9 pages

The metrosexual

chapter 33|10 pages

The sex addict

chapter 34|9 pages

The stripper

chapter 35|12 pages

The pen is mightier than the whore

Victorian newspapers and the sex-work saviour complex

chapter 36|11 pages

The pornography consumer as Other

chapter 37|11 pages

The porn performer

chapter 38|11 pages

The dominatrix

chapter 39|12 pages

The pervert

chapter 40|10 pages

The pornographer