Many Splendored Things - Thinking Sex and Play (Paasonen Susanna (Professor of Media Studies University of Turku))(Pevná vazba)

Exploring sex--bodily capacities, appetites, orientations, and connections--in terms of play and playfulness.We all know that sex involves a quest for pleasure, that sexual palates vary across people's lifespans, and that playful experimentations play a key role in how people discover their diverse sexual turn-ons and turn-offs. Yet little attention has been paid to thinking through the interconnections of sex and play, sexuality and playfulness. In Many Splendored Things from Goldsmiths Press, Susanna Paasonen considers these interconnections. Paasonen examines the notions of playfulness and play as they shed light on the urgency of sexual pleasures, the engrossing appeal of sex, and the elasticity of sexual desires, and considers their connection tocategories of identity. Drawing on a broad range of scholarship on sexuality, play, and the media, Paasonen
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