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Sexidemic : A Cultural History of Sex in America by Lawrence R Samuel; OverDrive, Inc is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sexidemic : A Cultural History of Sex in America about?

Sexidemic is the first real cultural history of sexuality in the United States since the end of World War II. For a people who supposedly love sex, the author argues, Americans have had no shortage of problems with it. Since the end of World War II, in fact, we’ve had a contentious relationship with sexuality, the subject a source of considerable tension and controversy on both an individual and societal level. Rather than being a simple pleasure of life, something to be enjoyed, sex has served as a challenging and disruptive force in many Americans’ everyday lives for the last two-thirds of a century. Our love affair with sex has thus been a rocky one, filled with bumps in the road that have caused major instability across our cultural landscape. Our individualistic, competitive, consumerist, and anxious national character is both reflected in and reinforced by this “sexidemic,” something few have recognized or perhaps want to admit. By charting the cultural trajectory of sex in America since the end of World War II, Sexidemic reveals how the nation’s continual woes with sexuality helped make us an anxious, insecure people. The sex lives of many, perhaps most Americans have been i

Author

Lawrence R Samuel; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299184466

Subjects

History, Sociology, Psychology