Sex has long been considered one of humanity's major hedonistic pursuits. Ancient Greek
philosopher Aristotle, in his Poetics, pondered humanity's compulsion for pleasure …

Portrayals of sexual relationships in mainstream media are prevalent and complex. Content
analyses estimate that sexual content appears in approximately 85% of major motion …

Sexuality, as it relates to video games in particular, has received increasing attention over
the past decade in studies of games and play, even as the notion of play remains relatively …

Let's talk about pleasure. You want pleasure? A lot of pleasure is conditioned. It's
anticipation. It's not in the skin. It's not in the genitalia. It's what it means that imbues it with …

Challenging everything from the mandates of the Catholic Church to the hotly debated ethics
of pornography, and from the controversy surrounding gay rights to issues of gender and …

The only human presence in this blurb is the fictional Charlotte, offered as a figure of sexual
identification. In much the same way, in July 2012 it is the fictional Anastasia Steele …

Major findings concerning the nature and impact of sexual content in mainstream
entertainment media, with a focus on empirical studies and content analyses (published …

This article focusses on the representation of the body in 'chemsex pornography'and looks at
selected examples of embodiment in amateur and studio productions. Presenting the idea of …

The field of pornography is not easy to define, or even characterize (Kendrick, 1996; Barak
and King, 2000; Rea, 2001; Gossett and Byrne, 2002; Sigel, 2002; Sonderholm, 2008; …

For a long time, the disciplinary organization of knowledge within the humanities and social
sciences relied upon a distinction between representation and practice, generating analytic …