The Sex of Joy: A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking Rhetoric

Autor:	Valerie V. Peterson
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Communication media_common.quotation_subject Heterosexuality Rhetoric Rhetorical question Human sexuality Sexual history Gender studies Meaning (existential) Sociology Variety (linguistics) Cultural critique media_common
Zdroj:	Popular Communication. 6:3-19
ISSN:	1540-5710 1540-5702
DOI:	10.1080/15405700701697595
Popis:	In turbulent times in U.S. sexual history, Alex Comfort's popular sex manual The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking served up an exciting yet reassuring menu of sexual practice. More than simply reflecting attitudes, The Joy of Sex participated in shaping the discourses of sex and sexuality of its day. This rhetorical and cultural critique of The Joy of Sex argues that the variety and arrangement of its recipe-book-like entries, compelling illustrations, and other rhetorical elements dramatized and sold an idealized heterosexuality to readers but reduced the meaning of “lovemaking” in the process.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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