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  • The Sex Inspectors: Porn Culture' and Sexual Failure

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    Dr Steven McDermott
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    This document discusses the rise of "sexperts" and self-help culture surrounding sexuality and relationships. It notes how [1] experts promote surveillance and normalization of monogamous heterosexuality through performance-based sex advice. It also examines how [2] these experts have become brands selling scientific yet confessional approaches to disciplining sexual subjectivities. Finally, it questions [3] how audiences negotiate and potentially subvert the commodified and policed visions of appropriate sexuality presented by these "postfeminist sexual entrepreneurs."

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    Laura Harvey The Open University

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    This document discusses the rise of "sexperts" and self-help culture surrounding sexuality and relationships. It notes how [1] experts promote surveillance and normalization of monogamous heterosexuality through performance-based sex advice. It also examines how [2] these experts have become brands selling scientific yet confessional approaches to disciplining sexual subjectivities. Finally, it questions [3] how audiences negotiate and potentially subvert the commodified and policed visions of appropriate sexuality presented by these "postfeminist sexual entrepreneurs."

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    The Sex Inspectors: Porn Culture' and Sexual Failure

    Diunggah oleh

    Dr Steven McDermott
    This document discusses the rise of "sexperts" and self-help culture surrounding sexuality and relationships. It notes how [1] experts promote surveillance and normalization of monogamous heterosexuality through performance-based sex advice. It also examines how [2] these experts have become brands selling scientific yet confessional approaches to disciplining sexual subjectivities. Finally, it questions [3] how audiences negotiate and potentially subvert the commodified and policed visions of appropriate sexuality presented by these "postfeminist sexual entrepreneurs."

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    The Sex Inspectors:

    ‘porn culture’ and sexual failure

    Laura Harvey

    June 2009
    The Sex Inspectors

    • Sex self-help, confessional


    and makeover
    • ‘Sexperts’ and surveillance
    • Produces normalising discourses
    of ‘spiced up’ monogamous
    heterosexuality
    • Sexual subject as consumer

    June 2009
    ‘Sexpert’ as brand

    • Authors and celebrities


    • Multimillion pound industry
    • Scientific and therapeutic discourses
    • Participant confessional
    • Regulated, performance-based sex

    June 2009
    Tracey Cox

    • ‘an international sex, body language and


    relationships expert’
    • ‘an academic background in psychology’

    June 2009
    Michael Alvear

    • ‘Gay agony uncle’

    June 2009
    Disciplining sexual subjectivity

    • Disciplinary gaze: thermal imaging, night-


    vision cameras, CCTV and video diaries

    “A proliferation of lifestyle magazines, aimed at


    both men and women, instruct us that it is no
    longer enough to be ‘doing it’; we should be
    ‘managing it’, ‘working at it’, ‘improving it’
    Tyler (2004)

    June 2009
    Performance

    June 2009
    The See-saw

    June 2009
    Commodified acts

    June 2009
    Postfeminist sexual entrepreneurs

    • Self help and governmentality


    • Sex as commodified into skills
    • ‘Compulsory sexual agency’ (Gill, 2008)
    • Boundaries of ‘normal sex’ firmly policed
    • Dangers of fetish
    • ‘Commodity feminism’ (Goldman, 1992)

    June 2009
    Performing sex

    • Discourses of management and


    entrepreneurship (Tyler, 2004)
    • Sexual failure and dysfunction
    • Active female sexuality as disempowering for
    men

    June 2009
    The See-saw

    “I honestly don’t know why he lashes out


    sometimes, because he just does it on the
    spur, sometimes it can be really simple things
    that I’ve said or done”

    Sarah, participant, The Sex Inspectors

    June 2009
    Postfeminist sexual entrepreneurship
    and the audience
    • Production and (re)production of appropriate
    sexual subjectivity through consumption and
    self- commodification
    • How are such self-help discourses negotiated?
    • Subversion/reading against the grain?
    • Excluded desires and bodies
    • Scepticism towards the sexperts?

    June 2009
    The Sex Inspectors are watching you…

    June 2009

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