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Speaking of Sex

Speaking of Sex

Paperback

Series: Sexual Politics

LinguisticsSexuality

ISBN10: 0304326984
ISBN13: 9780304326983
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Nov 25 1993
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.42 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
Nowadays we talk about sex incessantly -- yet we still lack a comfortable language in which to do so. The 'polite' vocabularies of religion, medicine, law and sociology are too formal, value-laden and often simply boring, whilst the vernacular Anglo-Saxon words are regarded by some as 'obscene', and are frequently used by others in an aggressively negative, sex-hating way. Antony Grey criticizes the various rhetorics of sexual discussion, and points at the ways in which language often becomes a stumbling-block to mutual understanding and happiness. He calls for a thorough overhaul of sexual discourse, to pave the way for greater realism.

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