Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Critical Voices in Porn Studies 1 Part I: Feminism, Pornography, Transgression 17 1 The Sex Wars: Transgressive Politics and the Politics of Transgression 21 2 Rethinking Transgression 35 3 Sex and Disgust in Popular Culture 49 Part II: Intensity and Prurience: Pornography After Sex 63 4 “Not All of it Will Get Your Dick Hard”: Pornography and Displacement 67 5 Prurience and Postmodernism 87 6 Violence, Sympathy, Titillation: The Body in a State of Intensity 103 Part III: Pornography and the Real 125 7 Pornography and the Appetite for Authenticity 129 8 Autobiography and/as the Real 141 vi Contents 9 Sex, Trauma, and the Authenticity Effect 157 Conclusion: Pornographication and the Explosion of the Pornographic 181 Notes 191 Works Cited 207 Index 231 ...