Beyond explicit [electronic resource] : pornography and the displacement of sex / Helen Hester.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: critical voices in porn studies -- Feminism, pornography, transgression -- The sex wars : transgressive politics and the politics of transgression -- Rethinking transgression -- Sex and disgust in popular culture -- Intensity and prurience : pornography after sex -- "Not all of it will get your dick hard" : pornography and displacement -- Prurience and postmodernism -- Violence, sympathy, titillation : the body in a state of intensity -- Pornography and the real -- Pornography and the appetite for authenticity -- Autobiography and/as the real -- Sex, trauma, and the authenticity effect -- Conclusion: pornographication and the explosion of the pornographic -- Endnotes -- References -- Index.

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