From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of culture. Striptease Culture explores the 'sexualization' of contemporary life, relating it to wider changes in post-war society.

Striptease Culture is divided in to three sections:

* Part one traces the development of pornography, following its movement from elite to mass culture and the contemporary fascination with porno-chic
* Part two considers popular cultural forms of sexual representation in the media, moving from backlash elements in straight male...