TV-MA: An Examination of Sexually Explicit Behaviours in “Sex and the City” and “The L Word” and Their Revivals

K Burton, H Hicks, S Crann, AD Ménard - Sexuality & Culture, 2024 - Springer
Sex and the City and The L Word were two groundbreaking television shows aimed at
female audiences featuring explicit sexual content and queer characters; however, both …

[HTML][HTML] TV's New Sexual Narratives? Unconventional Sex and Intimacy in Transparent and Broad City

T Trimmel - MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, 2018 - maifeminism.com
'Broad City Launches Sex Toy Line, Putting Its Sex-Positive Money Where Its Mouth Is'(Dry
2017) is just one of the numerous headlines in popular magazines celebrating the …

“Can Women Have Sex Like a Man?”: Sexual Scripts in Sex and the City

G Markle - Sexuality & Culture, 2008 - Springer
The television series Sex and the City became an instant international hit from its 1998
debut on HBO throughout its final episode in 2004 and still remains popular through …

'Whatever the approach, tab B still fits into slot A': Twenty years of sex scripts in romance novels

A Dana Ménard, C Cabrera - Sexuality & Culture, 2011 - Springer
In 2009, romance novels accounted for $1.36 billion worth of book sales, giving this genre
the largest market share by a wide margin. However, despite their popularity, very little …

[PDF][PDF] ''Sexuality is fluid''or is it? An analysis of television's The L Word from the perspectives of gender and sexuality

N Kuorikoski - InterAlia: Pismo poświęcone studiom queer, 2007 - bibliotekanauki.pl
North American television series The L Word (USA 2004-present) tells the story of a group of
lesbian and bisexual women living in Los Angeles. The current article offers a close reading …

How much sex is there in soap operas on British TV?

R Al-Sayed, B Gunter - Communications-The European Journal of …, 2012 - degruyter.com
Sexual depictions were analyzed in 139 episodes of seven drama serials on British
mainstream television over a four-week period in November–December 2006. Scenes that …

[HTML][HTML] Casual sexual scripts on the screen: A quantitative content analysis

E Timmermans, J Van den Bulck - Archives of sexual behavior, 2018 - Springer
While existing content analyses have provided insightful information in terms of contextual
factors and frequency of sexual behaviors, not much is known about the relational context in …

Entertainment media and sexual health: A content analysis of sexual talk, behavior, and risks in a popular television series

RE Jensen, JD Jensen - Sex roles, 2007 - Springer
Recent landmark content analyses of sexual content on television (eg, Kunkel, Biely, Eyal,
Cope-Farrar, Donnerstein, & Fandrich, 2003) provide a baseline for interpreting depictions …

Sex as spectacle: An overview of gender and sexual scripts in teen series popular with Flemish teenagers

E Van Damme, S Van Bauwel - Journal of Children and Media, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, research focusing on representations of sexuality in entertainment has
gained momentum. Television content can sometimes be characterized as “hypersexual,” …

[HTML][HTML] The Male Gaze or Male Gays? From Romance to Bromance through Performances of Gender and Sexuality by two of Love Island's Favourite Characters

SA Silverio, C Wilkinson, S Wilkinson - Sexuality & Culture, 2021 - Springer
This paper draws on two favourite characters from British reality television show, Love Island
2018: Jack Fincham, a former stationery sales manager, and Alex George, an Accident & …