Sex and the Citizens: Erotic Play and the New Leisure Culture
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.