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Finding normal : sex, love, and taboo in our hyperconnected world / Alexa Tsoulis-Reay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tsoulis-Reay, Alexa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex.
- Sex customs.
- Social norms.
- Computer sex--Social aspects.
- Computer sex.
- Online identities.
- Online social networks.
- Sexual Behavior.
- sexuality.
- Social aspects.
- Medical Subjects:
- Sexual Behavior.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 280 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Alexa Tsoulis-Reay's Finding Normal is an author's up close tour of people who are using the Internet to challenge the boundaries of what's taboo and what it means to be normal. Based on a popular series of candid interviews conducted for New York magazine's human science column-"What It's Like"-Finding Normal explores the ways that real people are using the Internet to find community, forge connections, and create identity in ways that challenge a variety of accepted sexual norms. Ranging from the atypical to the shocking, each story in Finding Normal intimately immerses the reader in the world of a person who is grappling with a unique set of circumstances relating to sexuality. Finding Normal at once celebrates the power of our current media moment for helping people rewrite the script for their lives and offers a warning about the danger of that seemingly limitless freedom to find yourself. Finding Normal shows the enduring power of the search for belonging -- for humans and society. Like happiness or life purpose, finding normal is perhaps the definitive human struggle"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Becoming Normal
- 1. Ken, Russ, Emily, and Kathy
- 2. Julia and Eileen, Andrew and Jane
- 3. Maddy
- pt. II Transgressing Normal
- 4. Shelly
- 5. Paul.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781250140937
- 1250140935
- OCLC:
- 1268122336
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