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Sex In Public: The Transformative Social Power Of Our Erotic Lives
A PrizeWinning SociologistS Radical Vision Of The Social Power Of Erotic Life.Whether We Are Contending With Shame, Healing From Trauma, Or Experimenting In The Bedroom, There Is A Common Tendency To Cast Anything Sexual As A Problem Best Solved In Private. Fears Of Judgment Fuel An Air Of Oppression Around Something That Should Be Liberating. According To Feminist Sociologist Angela Jones, We Must Reject This Solitary Vision Of Desire To Claim The Pleasure Fundamental To Our Freedom.Sex In Public Offers A Revolutionary New Paradigm For Understanding Sexuality. Sex Is Never Strictly Personal, But Relentlessly Social, Shaped By Power Relations, And Possessing Outsized Power Of Its Own. To Make This Case, Jones Charts The Inner And Interrelated Workings Of Our Desires, Behaviors, Identities, Relationships, And Communities.Guiding Readers Through FieldLeading Sociology, Sexual Science, And The Voices Of Sexual RuleBreakers Worldwide, Jones Pinpoints The Repressive Forces That Distort EroticismS Power, But Also Reveals Our Means Of Breaking Free. Championing A Rebellious Spirit That Uplifts Bodily Autonomy, Justice, And Care, Sex In Public Makes A Tantalizing Promise: Better Sex Lives And Empowerment Await, If Only We Dare To Know Our Sexualities Fully, Reimagining Society As We Do.
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