Speaking of Sex

By - Grey, Antony

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Cassell, London, 1993

ISBN 10 - 0304326984

ISBN 13 - 9780304326983

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Interpersonal relations

Shelf No - 14

common.call_no - 306.44 GRE

common.physical_description - 1 online resource (viii, 144 pages)

Notes - Includes Index

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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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