Paper Title
Sex and the Citizens: Erotic Play and the New Leisure Culture
Keywords
- sexualization
- erotic play
- leisure culture
- sexual practices
- personal lifestyle
- commodification of sex
- individualization
- recreational sex
- sexual autonomy
- western culture
- moral decline
- private behavior
- authority and sexuality
- mainstream culture
- visibility of sex
- consumer culture
- cultural shifts
- intimacy and leisure
- sexual norms
- sexual citizenship
- jeffrey weeks
- sexual expression
- sexual freedom
- media and sexuality
- lifestyle choices
- popular culture
- public vs private morality
Article Type
Book review
Journal
The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure
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Publication Info
Volume: 5 | Pages: 82–96
Published On
April, 2011
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Abstract
One sustained theme in this volume has been a decline in the moral judgement of private behaviour. In particular, as Jeffrey Weeks has also remarked, there has been an erosion of traditional authority over sexual behaviour (2007: 132) and in the West sexual practices have largely become matters of personal taste and lifestyle. The increasing individualisation, recreation-alisation — and particularly, the commodification of sex — have attracted the attention of both academic and popular writers. What has come to be termed the sexualisation of mainstream culture — all the multifarious ways in which sex is now more visible in contemporary cultures — has become an object of discussion and some concern.
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