Gratuitous sex research pr0n

Image by Julia Skobeleva.

When you’re a sex educator, lecturer, researcher and all-around sex geek, data and research related to sexuality is its own pornography. I can never seem to get enough — it’s so fascinating, titillating, the information itself is totally irresistible. For a sex research perv like me, the October 2009 (Volume 12, No. 5) special issue of Sexualities [journal] is a double whammy to be savored like a long, lazy afternoon with a lover. Why? The topic is “Researching and Teaching the Sexually Explicit” edited by Edited by Feona Attwood and I.Q. Hunter. Sex data porn about… porn! Specifically, the swiftly emergent arena of academia combined with sexually explicit subject matter.

::drool::

Papers in the issue include:

Feona Attwood & I.Q. Hunter ‘Not Safe for Work?: Teaching and Researching the Sexually Explicit’
Brian McNair ‘Teaching Porn’
Clarissa Smith ‘Pleasure and Distance: Exploring Sexual Cultures in the Classroom’
Susanna Paasonen ‘Healthy Sex and Pop Porn: Pornography, Feminism and the
Finnish Context’
Katrien Jacobs ‘Sex Scandal Science in Hong Kong’
Steve Jones & Sharif Mowlabocus ‘Hard Times and Rough Rides: The Legal and Ethical Impossibilities of Researching “shock” Pornographies’
Alan McKee ‘Social Scientists Don’t Say “Titwank”’
Kath Albury ‘Reading Porn Reparatively’
Dennis D. Waskul “My boyfriend Loves it when I Come Home from this Class”:
Pedagogy, Titillation, and New Media Technologies’