The Politics of Sex Prostitution and Pornography in Australia since 1945 [Paperback]

This political history of the sex industry in Australia since World War II cogently presents all sides of a complex and changing debate.This political history of the sex industry in Australia cogently presents all sides of a complex and changing debate. It looks at how prostitution and pornography are regulated, and how debates about them are produced. Sullivan examines political and legal discourse in the broader societal context of changing attitudes to sexual conduct. Using a broad range of examples from newspapers to films to demographics, the book highlights questions of censorship and of literature vs pornography. It also offers a critique of feminist debates.This political history of the sex industry in Australia cogently presents all sides of a complex and changing debate. It looks at how prostitution and pornography are regulated, and how debates about them are produced. Sullivan examines political and legal discourse in the broader societal context of changing attitudes to sexual conduct. Using a broad range of examples from newspapers to films to demographics, the book highlights questions of censorship and of literature vs pornography. It also offers a critique of feminist debates.This political history of the sex industry in Australia cogently presents all sides of a complex and changing debate. It looks at how prostitution and pornography are regulated, and how debates about them are produced. Sullivan examines political and legal discourse in the broader societal context of changing attitudes to sexual conduct. Using a broad range of examples from newspapers to films to demographics, the book highlights questions of censorship and of literature vs. pornography. It also offers a critique of feminist debates.Part I. Forming the Sex Industries: 1. Marking danger: prostitution and pornography before 1945; 2. A new moral economy? the immediate post war years 194555; Part II. The Sexual Revolution: 3. The sexual revolution and pornography 195569; 4. RevollƒV