Sexuality
A Graphic Guide
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
'Sexuality delivers the goods, making the history and theory of sexuality downright sexy ... I learned more in one session with this book than I've figured out in a lifetime.' Christine Burns MBE, author of Trans Britain
They're back! Writer Meg-John Barker and artist Jules Scheele once again team up in this cheeky and informative comic-book follow-up to Queer and Gender.
Sex is everywhere. It's in the stories we love - and the stories we fear. It defines who we are and our place in society ... at least we're told it ought to.
Sex and sexuality can seem like a house of horrors, full of monsters and potential pitfalls. We often live with fear, shame and frustration when it comes to our own sexuality, and with judgement when it comes to others'. Sex advice manuals, debates over sex work and stories of sexual "dysfunction" only add to our anxiety.
With compassion, humour, erudition and a touch of the erotic, Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele shine a light through the darkness and unmask the monsters.
'The art introduces a set of reoccurring characters, tongue-in-cheek references to the Scooby-Doo gang, who journey through a haunted house confronting and unmasking the villains: patriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, and capitalism personified ... The sum: accessible, compassionate reading for readers wanting to think more deeply about sex, society, and how they intersect.' Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Barker and Scheele (Queer: A Graphic History) team up again for an illustrated explainer that aims to deconstruct Western myths that cast heteronormative, monogamous sex as morally superior. Closer to a sexual philosophy text than sex ed guide, it asks the reader to discard the binary of normal/abnormal sex and replace it with a model of "benign sexual diversity and a focus on pleasure and consent." The volume ends with a call to expand erotic imaginations and recognize that solo sex, erotic art and fiction, kink, and asexuality, among other categories, are valid and valuable in their own right. The art introduces a set of reoccurring characters, tongue-in-cheek references to the Scooby-Doo gang, who journey through a haunted house confronting and unmasking the villains: patriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, and capitalism personified. Along the way, the gang encounter the cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and revelations such as "if everyone's body... change over their lives, then sex will be unique every time." The text is peppered with quotes (from Freud and Kinsey to bell hooks and Adrienne Maree Brown) and additional pop culture references, from Brokeback Mountain to Fifty Shades of Grey. The sum: accessible, compassionate reading for readers wanting to think more deeply about sex, society, and how they intersect.
