..., the explosion of sexually explicit representation posed an obstacle to the legitimation of a "gay literature," as explicit treatment of gay sex seemed for many editors and critics mutually exclusive with literariness. At the same time, pornography provided a crucial point of influence for a number of writers...

...This chapter investigates gay pornographic writing’s repertoire of conventions through a comparative analysis of two writers, John Rechy and Samuel Steward, each of whom explored the privileged place of the cop within gay pornography and subcultural practice. It argues that the different positions...

... and pedophile panics of the late 1970s and 1980s. Allan Stein Stadler Boy Leading a Horse Picasso intimacy Picasso Pablo Stadler Matthew Stein Gertrude Amin Kadji antidevelopmental narrative bildungsroman consent Esty Jed Lolita Nabokov pederasty pleasure pornography power queer studies sexual...

.... Topics include film and TV production, pornography, magazines, popular culture, and memorialization. cynicism democracy detail modernist hostility toward mythic images synecdoche crumbling faith in Adorno Theodor Wiesengrund mass culture newsreels Paramount Decree United States v Paramount...

...This book tracks the conjoined emergence of gay pornographic writing and gay literary fiction in the US during the contemporary period. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book responds to scholarship on contemporary pornography, with its near-exclusive focus on photographic representations...

... discussed in it are the entrepreneurs who sought to appeal to their community by producing erotically charged pornography and lifestyle magazines that allowed gay men to enjoy the naked male form as a component of an increasingly public sexual identity. This chapter concludes by discussing another aesthetic...

...This chapter considers how the history of gay pornographic writing might inform discussions of contemporary online pornography by reading Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts (2004) against the problem that digital technologies pose for efforts to limit minors’ access to sexually explicit representations...

... of #MeToo feminism, sexual health provides a language to intervene in debates about sexual assault and consent while elaborating a progressive vision of gender relations. Sometimes, however, certain visions of sexual health–such as the recent construal of pornography as a public health “epidemic”–cut across...

... and aggressive 151 tendencies associated with masculinity run rampant in pornography, and, alongside the migration of so much human communication to digital platforms, dating apps and “hook-up culture” amplify the opportunities for disconnected, self-serving sexual exploits. Post-feminism, as just described...

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...This chapter discusses geography's different social spaces and the types of geography conducted and practiced in them. Whether in the form of didactic-satirical cartography or as textual geo-pornography, the géographie galante of the salon was certainly not the same as the military...

... a vehicle promoting the firm to a vehicle for understanding German history. The chapter also discusses the questions that remained unanswered about the legacy of the legalization of pornography according to the terms of liberalism. Beate Uhse firm advertising Beate Uhse myth marketing advertising rhythm...

... Jim Roland Pete child development theory drugs and alcohol teen sexuality suicide mental illness occult activities heavy metal moral panics privacy Judas Priest pornography One of my windows opened just above the garage roof, which I could use as an alternate entrance/exit. I used...

... in the 1970s and in her work On Photography and Illness as Metaphor. She proscribed aesthetic training to maintain agency over emotion, encouraging her readers to be wary of feeling, either the excitements of pornography or the numbing exposure to photographs of suffering. Columbia University gender...

... sometimes responded by charging teenagers with child pornography, sexual harassment, and indecency offenses. This chapter examines several recent criminal sexting cases and educational literature in the United States and Australia. Two broad arguments are made. First, the sexting panic is a displaced...

...Ever since the reelection of President Bush, Conservative Christians have been stereotyped in the popular media: Bible-thumping militants and anti-intellectual zealots determined to impose their convictions on such matters as evolution, school prayer, pornography, abortion, and homosexuality...

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... his street credibility to Players by publishing short stories in the magazine. The synergy between pulps and pornography was further sealed by what this chapter terms the “reality effect.” Across the country, the black press covered new titles of black pulp fiction with great interest. Newspapers...

... Carney’s debut novel The Real Thing (1968), this chapter argues that the counterpublics of leather pornography provided alternative reception sites for novels by gay authors who had been dismissed by the mainstream press for their explicit engagements with gay sexuality. In ways that historians...