Sex: What's love got to do with it?
Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
University of Queensland
Faculty
Faculty of Community Services, Education and Social Sciences
School
School of Communications and Arts
RAS ID
602
Abstract
This paper addresses that natural consort of love: sex. It particularly considers the absence of actual sex from mainstream popular culture and the marginalisation of 'fun' sex as porn, requiring its illicit circulation as ‘illegitimate’ videos. The absence of sex from films classified and screened in public venues (even to over-18s) prevents a discourse about actual sex informing the discourse of love and romance perpetuated through Hollywood movies. The value of a variety of representations of sexual practice in the context of a discussion of love, sex and romance in Western cinema was briefly illuminated for the few days that Baise-moi was legitimately screened in Australia.
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free_to_read
Comments
Green, L. R. (2002). Sex: what's love got to do with it?. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 5(6). Available here