SEX IN PUBLIC

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From the Publisher's Marketplace Announcement: 

Sociologist Angela Jones's Erotic Power, an exploration of how sexuality operates in society, arguing that our sex lives are never private; that sex plays an outsized role in the shaping of norms, communities, and politics; and that the pursuit of pleasure can liberate us from the vice grip of sexual stigma and broader forces of oppression, to Brandon Proia at Seal Press, by Margo Beth Fleming at Brockman.  

SEX IN PUBLIC:  The Transformative Social Power of Our Erotic Lives 

Whether we are contending with shame, healing from trauma, or experimenting in the bedroom, there is a common tendency to cast anything sexual as a problem best solved in private. Fears of judgment fuel an air of oppression around something that should be liberating. According to feminist sociologist Angela Jones, we must reject this solitary urge to claim the pleasure that is fundamental to our freedom.

Sex in Public offers a revolutionary new paradigm for understanding sexuality. Sex is never strictly isolated, but relentlessly social, constantly shaped by power relations, and possessing outsized power of its own. To make this case, Jones charts the inner and interrelated workings of our desires, behaviors, identities, relationships, and communities. Guiding readers through field-leading sociology, sexual science, and the voices of sexual rule-breakers worldwide, Jones pinpoints the repressive forces that distort eroticism’s power while revealing the means of breaking free. Championing a rebellious spirit that uplifts bodily autonomy, justice, and care, Sex in Public makes a tantalizing promise: Better sex lives and empowerment await, if only we dare to know our sexualities fully, reimagining society as we do.