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Sex Matters

Striptease Culture Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire By Brian McNair Media Events and Spectacle Introduction and Part 1. Sex Matters. Sexuality: normal, deviant, perverted Gender: plural sexualities Recognized sexual citizenship Economic power 1980s HIV/Aids.

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Sex Matters

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  1. Striptease CultureSex, Media and the Democratisation of DesireBy Brian McNairMedia Events and SpectacleIntroduction and Part 1

  2. Sex Matters • Sexuality: normal, deviant, perverted • Gender: plural sexualities • Recognized sexual citizenship • Economic power • 1980s HIV/Aids

  3. Media as engine of sexual revolution • Regulation of technologies

  4. From Wilde to Wild • Fin de siecle: • Sexual revolution • New woman/aesthetes vs Feminism/gay liberation • Sexual epidemic • Syphilis vs HIV/AIDS • Patriarchal backlash • The Bostonians vs Backlash • Moral puritanism • Anti-prostitution vs • anti-pornography • The feminist revolution • Threat vs power

  5. UK Michael Portillo- Tory seat in House of Common • Stonewall Inn June 28 1969- NYPD vs gay • HIV/AIDS made room for discussion • Straight masculinity branched out

  6. The AmazingExpandingPornosphere • Appeal= sex is the story • Satisfies without sex • Never become fully mainstream because then societal taboo no longer exists • Porn for all! • Internet reduceded print porn to softcore status • Loaded, FHM, GQ

  7. High culture art vs low culture filth • Lolita vs The End of Alice • Sex for fun, not procreation • Liberal, pornographic society=flourish of feminism • Blurring of boundaries made censorship difficult and irrelevant

  8. Porno-chic • Made into art • Devil in Miss Jones • Jeff Koons Made in Heaven • Madonna’s Sex book • Basic Instinct vs. Showgirls

  9. Just your average blue collar worker • The people vs. Larry Flynt • Boogie Nights • Fashionable S&M chic • 90s vinyl, PVC look • Big news… sex sells! • TV and the porn-themed documentary/show • Sex and Shopping • Eurotrash

  10. Striptease Culture • Not recognized art • Indulge demands of voyeurism • Big Brother (2000) 40,000 applicants for only 10 spaces • Demi Moore IS striptease chic • The Full Monty delivers! 1997 • Elite sexual exposure • Kennedy vs Clinton • Behind the scenes footage! • Culture of confession • Jerry Springer • Fantasy Club • Jennicam

  11. Reality television/confessional culture: danger, disaster or delight? • Everyone’s a “porn” star now, congrats!

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