Description
Book SynopsisThis book expands the notion of sexual fantasies from the field of psychology into the realms of cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. So far, much research on sexual fantasies has dealt with issues of gender differences, the effect of sexual fantasies on people’s sex lives, or how problematic fantasies can be treated in therapy. In this volume contributors from different academic disciplines explore sexual fantasies at the convergence of the cultural and the individual, taking into account that fantasies are paradoxical: highly individualised and private, and at the same time dependent on a world that supplies structures, images, symbols, and narratives.
Table of ContentsContents: Mariah Larsson/Sara Johnsdotter: Introduction: At the Convergence of the Cultural and the Individual – Emma Vossen: Feminism and Sexual Fantasy: Reading and Defending
Fifty Shades of Grey as Pornography – Sara Johnsdotter: Written Fantasies: A Case of Language-Induced Sexual Excitement – Deborah Blizzard: Making the Fantasy: Consumption, Relationships, and the RealDoll – Pernilla Ouis: The Politics of Sexual Fantasies: The Inversion of Sexual Fantasies in Orientalism and Occidentalism – Aje Carlbom: Blocking out Sexual Fantasies for a Fantasy of Eternal Sex: Islamist Views – Charlotta Carlström: Fantasies Becoming Practice: BDSM as Ritual – Ingrid Ryberg: Documenting Fantasy and Expanding Reality in Queer Pornography – Mariah Larsson: Fantasies Becoming Illegal: The Manga Case, Child Porn Law, and the Regulation of the Sexual Mind – Sven-Axel Månsson: Johns’ Fantasies of «the Prostitute» – Daniel D. Hutto: Just Faking It? Pretend Theory Meets Sexual Fantasising – Gunnel Brander: Sexual Fantasies in Sexological Psychotherapeutic Settings.
