Remaking the sex industry: The adult expo as a microcosm

Sex For Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry: Second Editon

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 285-306

  Comella, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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EID: 84917289538     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203872802     Document Type: Chapter

References (30)

1. Frank Rich, "Naked Capitalists," New York Times Magazine, May 20, 2001.
2. David Cay Johnston, "Indications of a Slowdown in Sex Entertainment Trade," New York Times, January 4, 2007.
3. Lynn Comella, Selling Sexual Liberation: Women-Owned Sex Toy Stores and the Business of Social Change, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, 2004.
4. Lisa Henderson, "Sexuality, Cultural Production, and Foucault," paper presented at Sexuality after Foucault Conference, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, November 2003.
5. See Joshua Gamson, Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
6. Laura Grindstaff, The Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
7. See Katherine Sender, Business, Not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market, New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
8. Arlene Davilla, Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
9. See Kathy Davis, The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.
10. Amy Farrell, Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
11. Larry Grossberg, "Can Cultural Studies Find True Happiness in Communication?" Journal of Communication 43 (1993): 89-97, at p. 90.
12. For examples see: Elizabeth Bernstein, Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
13. Barbara G. Brents and Kate Hausbeck, "Marketing Sex: U.S. Legal Brothels and Late Capitalist Consumption," Sexualities 10 (2007): 425-439.
14. Katherine Frank, G-Strings and Sympathy, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
15. Ian Denchasy, "Retail Review: Redefining the Adult Industry," www.avn.com, June 26, 2008.
16. See Feona Atwood, "Fashion and Passion: Marketing Sex to Women," Sexualities 8 (2005): 392-406.
17. Alicia Relles, "What Women Want," Adult Entertainment Expo, January, 2008.
18. Tristan Taormino, "Dangerous Dildos, Part 1," Village Voice, January 30, 2007.
19. Tristan Taormino, "Dangerous Dildos, Part 2," Village Voice, February 13, 2007.
20. K. Brewer, "How the Mainstream Market is Cashing in on Sex Toys- and What it Means for Novelty Retailers," AVN Novelty News (January-February 2008): 44-48.
21. Jessica Rae Patton, "Make Love, Not Waste: Bringing Environmentalism into the Bedroom," E Magazine (September-October 2008): 40-41.
22. See Lynn Comella, "Looking Backward: Barnard and Its Legacies," The Communication Review 11 (2008): 202-211.
23. Gail Dines and Robert Jensen, "The Anti-Feminist Politics behind the Pornography that 'Empowers' Women," www.opednews.com, January 24, 2008.
24. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1, New York: Vintage Books, 1978, p. 33.
25. Lisa Henderson, "Slow Love," Communication Review 11 (2008): 219-224, at p. 222.
26. Lynn Comella, "Porn Show Coverage Too Cliched," Letter to the Editor, The Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 17, 2008.
27. Nina Hartley, "Thus I Refute Chyng Sun: Feminists for Porn," Counterpunch.org, February 2, 2005.
28. Metis Black, "Playing the Name Game," Xbiz, March 2008.
29. Ian Denchasy, "What's Wrong with Sexual Health?" avn.com, August 5, 2008.
30. Tony Lovett, "Extreme Industry Makeover," avn.com, March 26, 2008.