Part-Time Perverts: Sex, Pop Culture, and Kink Management (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313391576)

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.

Author: Lauren Rosewarne
ISBN-10: 0313391572
ISBN-13: 9780313391576
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 04/19/2011
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 91