1. Striptease Culture Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire By Brian McNair Media Events and Spectacle Introduction and Part 1

2. Sex Matters Sexuality: normal, deviant, perverted
Gender: plural sexualities
Recognized sexual citizenship
Economic power
1980s HIV/Aids

3. Media as engine of sexual revolution
Regulation of technologies

4. From Wilde to Wild Fin de siecle: Sexual revolution
New woman/aesthetes vs Feminism/gay liberation
Sexual epidemic
Syphilis vs HIV/AIDS
Patriarchal backlash
The Bostonians vs Backlash
Moral puritanism
Anti-prostitution vs
anti-pornography
The feminist revolution
Threat vs power

5. UK Michael Portillo- Tory seat in House of Common
Stonewall Inn June NYPD vs gay
HIV/AIDS made room for discussion
Straight masculinity branched out

6. The Amazing Expanding Pornosphere
Appeal= sex is the story
Satisfies without sex
Never become fully mainstream because then societal taboo no longer exists
Porn for all!
Internet reduceded print porn to softcore status
Loaded, FHM, GQ

7. High culture art vs low culture filth
Lolita vs The End of Alice
Sex for fun, not procreation
Liberal, pornographic society=flourish of feminism
Blurring of boundaries made censorship difficult and irrelevant

8. Porno-chic Made into art Devil in Miss Jones Jeff Koons Made in Heaven
Madonna’s Sex book
Basic Instinct vs. Showgirls

9. Just your average blue collar worker
The people vs. Larry Flynt
Boogie Nights
Fashionable S&M chic
90s vinyl, PVC look
Big news… sex sells!
TV and the porn-themed documentary/show
Sex and Shopping
Eurotrash

10. Striptease Culture Not recognized art Indulge demands of voyeurism
Big Brother (2000) 40,000 applicants for only 10 spaces
Demi Moore IS striptease chic
The Full Monty delivers! 1997
Elite sexual exposure
Kennedy vs Clinton
Behind the scenes footage!
Culture of confession
Jerry Springer
Fantasy Club
Jennicam

11. Reality television/confessional culture: danger, disaster or delight?
Everyone’s a “porn” star now, congrats!