Chapter 1 The Character of London Sex Shops Despite the fact that the majority of sex shops across London welcome all sexes and genders their visual language suggests a male orientation and seems to follow a certain convention about what is desired. Regardless of the sexual orientation of the sex shop, the majority of the… Continue reading SEXUALITY AND POWER – part 7
Another approach to reveal the coherences linked to the subject can be observed in Bristow`s writing, Sexuality, where he lists several issues that have not been mentioned so far. One of them is the problem of pornography, which highly relates to the notion of sex shops, and how it is criticised by feminists. As pornography… Continue reading SEXUALITY AND POWER – part 6
Judith Butler in Gender Trouble questions the category of woman, and claims that gender is constructed, it is ‘a free –floating artifice’ (Butler, 1990:6) and is more produced than natural. She also draws parallel between language and sexuality, how linguistic structures shape its perception and offer a platform for its reconstructed association. Many points of… Continue reading SEXUALITY AND POWER – part 5
Abstract My dissertation investigates the ways of displaying feminine pleasure within contemporary sex shops in London. I want to illustrate how the notion of sexuality was established and shaped by social discourse in order to gain better understanding of the status of feminine sexuality and its interpretation within a patriarchal society. Over the last two… Continue reading SEXUALITY AND POWER – part 1
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