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The War on Sex Paperback – March 27, 2017

by David M. Halperin (Editor), Trevor Hoppe (Editor)

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The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties in the United States. This state-of-the-art collection tells a different story: while progress has been made in marriage equality, reproductive rights, access to birth control, and other areas, government and civil society are waging a war on stigmatized sex by means of law, surveillance, and social control. The contributors document the history and operation of sex offender registries and the criminalization of HIV, as well as highly punitive measures against sex work that do more to harm women than to combat human trafficking. They reveal that sex crimes are punished more harshly than other crimes, while new legal and administrative regulations drastically restrict who is permitted to have sex. By examining how the ever-intensifying war on sex affects both privileged and marginalized communities, the essays collected here show why sexual liberation is indispensable to social justice and human rights.

Contributors. Alexis Agathocleous, Elizabeth Bernstein, J. Wallace Borchert, Mary Anne Case, Owen Daniel-McCarter, Scott De Orio, David M. Halperin, Amber Hollibaugh, Trevor Hoppe, Hans Tao-Ming Huang, Regina Kunzel, Roger N. Lancaster, Judith Levine, Laura Mansnerus, Erica R. Meiners, R. Noll, Melissa Petro, Carol Queen, Penelope Saunders, Sean Strub, Maurice Tomlinson, Gregory Tomso

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"Interdisciplinary in scope and inclusive of activist voices from outside the academy, the book is an essential introduction to a struggle for self-determination and sexual self-assertion that has been occurring behind mainstream social movements’ focus on dignity and respectability.... [A]n urgent, well-argued agenda...."

(Ben Miller Lambda Literary Review 2017-03-30)

"This is an illuminating, often disturbing book, handling some extremely touchy subjects...."

(Perry Brass Huffington Post 2017-04-19)

"[A]n ambitious and provocative collection of essays.... The political credentials of many contributors to this volume show that much can be achieved in the face of overwhelming odds, and serve as a model for blending scholarship with civic engagement."

(Dan Udy Times Literary Supplment 2017-04-26)

"The editors have done a valuable service putting together these 17 rigorous pieces that, collectively, paint a grim picture of the nation’s sexual culture.... It’s a valuable book meant for an academic audience, a useful resource for one’s bookcase to draw upon when considering a truly troubling dimension of sex and contemporary life: the criminalization of sex."

(David Rosen New York Journal of Books 2017-03-27)

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"Containing essays from some of the most insightful scholars and activists working on the front lines, The War on Sex is a vital tool for understanding how the regulation and criminalization of sex relate to our vital struggles in racial, economic, gender, and disability justice. Full of thoughtful, carefully researched essays, The War on Sex will support readers in classrooms and social movements to understand and strategize about the relationships among sex, criminalization, poverty, disability, and contemporary politics. We need this book right now."

(Dean Spade, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law)

"Recent events just keep confirming, all too dismally, that the issues this collection takes up—from sex offender registries and sex trafficking to HIV in public health—link together as a major front of struggle in our time, often far from public view. Questioning some of the narratives of progress that are so widely echoed in the media and popular consciousness, The War on Sex will immediately meet the needs of academics and activists alike."

(Michael Warner, author of Publics and Counterpublics)

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Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press Books (March 27, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0822363674
ISBN-13: 978-0822363675
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 8.8 inches
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A person accused is as good as guilty in the eyes of the public without ...

January 7, 2018

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Every lawyer, police officer, Prosecutor, Judge and average person should read this book. If the only education on sex crimes you understand is from the television programming crime shows and nightly news then read this book. The news has exaggerated the danger, the number of stranger danger crimes which most parents are worried about. Children suffer by not being allowed some freedoms because of the extraordinary rare crimes of a child being kidnapped, raped and murdered. The most dangerous situations for a child is an automobile accident, fire and drowning.

Those citizens that have to register as "SEX OFFENDERS" in the present tense make an ignorant public think they must be dangerous. It has nothing to do with the level of danger or risk to the community and is a harsh extra punishment after they have all ready paid for their crime. 95-97% of the cases never have a trial, but a coerced plea agreement. A person accused is as good as guilty in the eyes of the public without any evidence.

Branding someone for life with a horrible label that keeps people afraid of them, takes away any opportunities to get a decent job or housing is criminal. This book educates a person. We may have the mental capacity to learn to be reasonable, but that takes education because human beings tend to use the lowest form of thinking when they are afraid.

The Sex Offender Registry is a draconian punishment that should never have been allowed in a free society. It is not about facts, but fear and control of the public which makes it political only.

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I got this book for school I don't love it and a little hard to read

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