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ISBN 10: 1906897824
ISBN 13: 9781906897826
Author: Susanna Paasonen
Exploring sex—bodily capacities, appetites, orientations, and connections—in terms of play and playfulness. We all know that sex involves a quest for pleasure, that sexual palates vary across people's lifespans, and that playful experimentations play a key role in how people discover their diverse sexual turn-ons and turn-offs. Yet little attention has been paid to thinking through the interconnections of sex and play, sexuality and playfulness. In Many Splendored Things from Goldsmiths Press, Susanna Paasonen considers these interconnections. Paasonen examines the notions of playfulness and play as they shed light on the urgency of sexual pleasures, the engrossing appeal of sex, and the elasticity of sexual desires, and considers their connection to categories of identity. Drawing on a broad range of scholarship on sexuality, play, and the media, Paasonen moves from the conceptual to the concrete, examining advice literature on sexual play, the vernacular aesthetics of the Fifty Shades series, girls' experiences of online sexual role-playing, popular media coverage of age-play, and Jan Soldat's documentary films on BDSM culture. Paasonen argues that play in the realm of sexuality involves experimentation with what bodies can feel and do and what people may imagine themselves as doing, liking, and preferring. Play involves the exploration of different bodily capacities, appetites, orientations, and connections. Occasionally strained, dark, and even hurtful in the forms that it takes and the sensory intensities that it engenders, sex presses against previously perceived and imagined horizons of embodied potentiality. Play pushes sexual identifications into motion.
1 Introduction: Sharp Thrills, Sombre Hues
Play and the Hierarchies of Sex
All Sorts of Play
Things to Follow
2 Magic Circles and Magical Circuits of Play
Mapping out Play, Framing out Sex
Procreation, Pleasure and Play
Scripts and Performances
What Bodies Can Do
3 “Raising the Ordinary to the Extraordinary”
Generically Kinky
The Workings of Sexual Fantasy
Resonant Corporeal Intensification
Singing the Body Electric, in Different Terms
Ill Effects and Poor Quality
4 Pervy Minors and Adult Babies
Pervy Role-Play
The Tricky Topic of Childhood Play
Deviant, Sordid and Safe
“My Husband is an Adult Baby!”
Adult Baby Micro-Celebrities
Adult Babies with Butt Plugs
5 Slaves, Prisoners and the Edge of Play
Trauma and Play
“256,000 Shades of Gray”
Ethics of Film Style
Willing Prisoners
The Edges of Play
Play for the Sake of Pleasure
6 Ripples Across Identities
Bodies Re-attuned
Fields of Variation
The Problem with Identity and Pornography
Contingencies of Flesh
Pressing Circuits of Desire
References
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