
- 272 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book offers an erudite yet highly accessible exploration of the presence of sexual perversion in popular culture and its manifestation in everyday life. An interdisciplinary exploration of sexual perversion in everyday life, Part-Time Perverts: Sex, Pop Culture, and Kink Management starts from the premise that, for better or worse, everyone is exposed to a continual barrage of representations of sexual perversion, both subliminal and overt. Our involvement, Dr. Lauren Rosewarne contends, is universal, but our management strategies cover a spectrum of behavioral possibilities from total repression to total immersion. It is those strategies that she examines here. Drawing on her own experience, as well as on pop culture and a multidisciplinary mix of theory, Rosewarne shifts the discussion of perversion away from the traditional psychological and psychiatric focus and instead explores it through a feminist lens as a social issue that affects everyone. Her book examines representations of perversion—from suppression to dabbling to full-body immersion—and proposes a classification for perversion management, and charts the diverse strategies we use to manage, and perhaps enjoy, exposure.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Sex. When It’s Funny and Kinky and Strange
- 1 Who Me? Yes You! Exposing the Perverts and Probing the Fantasies
- 2 Raging Against the Machine: Repressing, Denying, and Damning Perversion
- 3 Wishing and Hoping: Perversion from a Distance — Part 1
- 4 Thinking and Praying: Perversion from a Distance — Part 2
- 5 A Little Dab’ll Do Ya: Dabbling in Perversion
- 6 Going the Whole Hog: Perversion Immersion
- 7 Too Much Love: Perversion Overload and Retreat
- Conclusion: A Cup of Tea, a Bex, and a Good Lie Down
- Appendix: Media References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index