SELLING SEX SHORT
An academic work has been produced by Dr. Meagan Tyler which looks at the “pornographication of culture or the mainstreaming of pornography”. Though she is writing from a specific perspective that provides solutions with which we may or may not agree, the introduction of her book Selling Sex Short is an important analysis of Western culture. As a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the school of management at RMIT she looks at sex from both a cultural as well from an economic perspective.
Part of the INTRODUCTION:
This book aims to explore and explain the model of sexuality currently
being constructed through the industries of pornography and sexology (the
“science of sex”) in the West, in particular the United States (US), the
United Kingdom (UK) and Australia. The book focuses on five trends
which have occurred or intensified during the last decade, namely: the
pornographication of culture or the mainstreaming of pornography, the rise
of extreme and violent sex acts in mass-marketed pornography, the
resurgence of sexology, the creation of “female sexual dysfunction”
(FSD), and the rise of “porn stars” as sex experts. While there is now an
emerging body of literature, both popular and academic, which is
beginning to document some of these trends only a handful of sources
currently engage in critical feminist analysis.