What if we took sex out of the box marked special, either the worst or best thing that a person can experience, and considered it within the complexity of human life? In this extraordinary book, despite longstanding tabloid-style sexual preoccupations with monsters and victims, shame and virtue, JoAnn Wypijewski does exactly that. From the criminalization of HIV to the frenzy over paedophile priests, from unexamined assumptions around the murder of Matthew Shepard to accusations of Woody Allen, from Brett Kavanaugh to Abu Ghraib, Wypijewski takes some of the most famous stories of the last decades and turns them inside out, weaving what together becomes a searing indictment of modern sexual politics, exposing the myriad ways panic over sex and a punishing culture are intertwined; along the way, considering pleasure, pictures, censorship, the many modes of self-deception, memory and more. What emerges is an examination of the ways in which the ever-expanding default language of monsters and victims has contributed to un-thinking, un-freedom and an embrace of the repressive power of the state. Politics exists in the mess of life. Sex does too, Wypijewski insists, and so must sexual politics, to make any sense at all.
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