Porno? Chic! How Pornography Changed the World and Made It a Better Place

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Porno? Chic! examines the relationship between the proliferation of pornography and sexualised culture in the West and social and cultural trends which have advanced the rights of women and homosexuals. Brian McNair addresses this relationship with an analysis of trends in sexualised culture since 2002 linked to a transnational analysis of change in sexual politics and sex/gender relations in a range of societies, from the sexually liberalised societies of advanced capitalism to those in which women and homosexuals remain tightly controlled by authoritarian, patriarchal regimes. In this accessible, jargon-free book, Brian McNair examines why those societies in which sexualised culture is the most liberalised and pervasive are also those in which the socio-economic and political rights of women and homosexuals have advanced the most. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 List of figures......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 9 Preface......Page 10 PART I Porno? Chic!......Page 14 1 Introduction......Page 16 2 Pornosphere......Page 27 3 Porno? Chic!......Page 49 4 Porno fear......Page 66 PART II How pornography changed the world and made it a better place......Page 88 Preface to Part II......Page 90 5 What has pornography ever done for us? The argument from evidence......Page 92 6 Gaga-ing for it: the feminisation of pornography and sexual culture......Page 104 7 Pornography and the politics of sexual inclusion......Page 123 8 The aesthetics of sexual transgression......Page 138 9 Drop porn, not bombs!......Page 159 10 Conclusion......Page 169 Notes......Page 173 Bibliography......Page 187 Index......Page 194