Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualization of Western Culture

By F. Attwood. 2014

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‘No girl wants to be called a slut!’: women, heterosexual casual sex and the sexual double standard (2017, background): “Women are increasingly invited to pursue uninhibited sex in a cultural landscape that is deemed ‘sexualised’ (Attwood, 2009; Gill, 2009b). depictions of heterosexual women’s casual sex, for example, have become prevalent (Farvid & Braun, 2013, 2014), with programmes such as Sex and the City, Girls,…”
Policing ‘sexting’: Responsibilization, respectability and sexual subjectivity in child protection/crime prevention responses to teenagers’ digital sexual expression (2014, background): “This anxiety is somewhat unsurprising given that the practice of sexting is often framed not only through the lens of child pornography laws but also as though it is a direct consequence of the so-called ‘pornification’ of culture (Paul, 2005) or the mainstreaming of sex—the ways that sex is becomin”