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This “global epidemic” of S&M imagery needs to be acknowledged and interpreted as a deliberate cultural “construction” that reflects the...

The transition from pop imagery to sexual subculture and back is adamant. In 1966 American sadomasochists adopt some terms from John Norman’...

Like gay iconicity, camp culture of the sixties was to increasingly exploit the image of S&M, from leather-clad agent Mrs. Emma Peel to ...

In the United States it was also from the peripheries of the classical system that this major shift towards “sexploitation” occurred, coinci...

Illustrating Foucault’s “productive repression” hypothesis a subculture actually grew responding to this normative classification, springing...

Simultaneously sado-masochism was being constructed by medical and legal sexology discourses as the ultimate model of what Foucault termed t...

In opposition to high culture’s alleged flight from sensationalism, modern popular culture has been institutionally delimitated and defined ...