This book examines ways of developing research on young people s sexual cultures in the context of a media-saturated and technology-focused contemporary culture, an area of study that remains relatively unexplored despite heightened concern about young people, sex and culture. Unlike the widespread sensationalist reporting about the pornification of young people s lives and the policy documents which have emerged on sexualization, the book foregrounds the need for a critical approach which recognizes the complexity of culture and is able to unpack what is at stake in the construction of...

The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality identifies and engages with a series of issues, ideas and themes currently shaping the field of media and sexuality studies and activism from a broad range of conceptual and methodological approaches drawn from research around the world. One of the central aims of this volume is to reinvigorate debates around media, sex and sexuality in order to draw on advances in studies of pornography and other sexually explicit media, online sexual cultures and their intersections with the spaces and places of media considered mainstream.