Full name: Part-Time Perverts: Sex, Pop Culture, and Kink Management

Author: Lauren Rosewarne Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

An interdisciplinary exploration of sexual perversion in everyday life, Part-Time Perverts: Sex, Pop Culture, and Kink Management starts from the premise that, for better or worse, everyone is exposed to a continual barrage of representations of sexual perversion, both subliminal and overt. Our involvement, Dr. Lauren Rosewarne contends, is universal, but our management strategies cover a spectrum of behavioral possibilities from total repression to total immersion. It is those strategies that she examines here. Drawing on her own experience, as well as on pop culture and a multidisciplinary mix of theory, Rosewarne shifts the discussion of perversion away from the traditional psychological and psychiatric focus and instead explores it through a feminist lens as a social issue that affects everyone. Her book examines representations of perversion--from suppression to dabbling to full-body immersion--and proposes a classification for perversion management, and charts the diverse strategies we use to manage, and perhaps enjoy, exposure.