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Author Phoenix, Joanna, 1964-

Title Illicit and illegal : sex, regulation, and social control / Joanna Phoenix and Sarah Oerton
Published Uffculme, Cullompton, Devon ; Portland, Or : Willan Pub., 2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 209 pages)
Contents Introduction: moral authoritarianism and official and quasi-official discourses of sex -- Destructive sex: sexual autonomy, victimhood and the 'problem of men' -- Threatening sex: protection, communities and childhood -- Commercial sex: consent, coercion and exploitation -- Nuisance sex: harassment, collusion and decency -- Professional sex: ethics, trust and moral guardianship -- Transgressive and digital sex: margins, edges and limitless victims -- Conclusion: victims, perpetrators and the new sexual enterprise
Summary Drawing upon sociological understandings of sex and wider theories of deviance and social control, this book investigates the different sites of regulation for sexual activities across diverse contexts and challenges the idea that early 21st-century Britain is increasingly sexually liberated
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-206) and index
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Subject Sex crimes -- Great Britain
Sex and law -- Great Britain
Sex -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Sex and law
Sex crimes
Sex -- Social aspects
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Oerton, Sarah
ISBN 9781134015757
1134015755
9781843926245
1843926245