Speaking of Sex
Author | : Anthony Grey |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 1993-11-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781441126894 |
ISBN-13 | : 1441126899 |
Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Download or read book Speaking of Sex written by Anthony Grey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1993-11-25 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.