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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