The mainstreaming of masturbation

Tuck, G. print (2009) The mainstreaming of masturbation. In: Attwood, F. print, ed. (2009) Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualisation of Western Culture. London: I. B. Taurus, pp. 77-92. ISBN 978-1845118273

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Abstract

This chapter considers the way masturbation has entered mainstream culture, is promoted in self-help literature and magazines, is newly visible in film and on tv, and is foregrounded in the mediated sex offered by pornography, phone and cybersex. The chapter examines the paradoxical ways masturbation and masturbators are currently represented in the contemporary context (male negative – female positive). It discusses the relationship between anxiety and autonomy, autoerotic pleasure and sexual identity and articulates these concerns with regard to the more general sexualisation of consumer capitalism.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	masturbation, identity, anxiety, consumption
Faculty/Department:	~Pre-2010 Faculty Structure > Faculty of Creative Arts > School of Creative Arts > Department of Culture, Media and Drama
ID Code:	11199
Deposited By:	G. print Brown
Deposited On:	27 Aug 2010 08:45
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2012 12:40