Table of Contents

Kimberly Mahaffy, "Mundane Sex: From Frivolity to Serious Scholarship"

Everyday Experiences of Gender and Sexuality:

Rasby Marlene Powell, "Using Traditional Gender Norms to Expand Gender: A Qualitative Study of Old Time Dance Communities"

Eva Paulino Bueno, "One Step at a Time: Japanese Women Walking"

Annie Potts, "Homebodies: Images of 'inner space' and domesticity in women's talk on sex"

Pornography: Raw and Routine:

Clarissa Smith, "'They're ordinary people, not Aliens from the Planet Sex!': the mundane excitements of pornography for women"

Chris Nagel, "Pornographic Experience"

Ruth Barcan, "In the Raw: 'Home-made' Porn and Reality Genres"

Forays into the Sexual Marketplace:

John Style, "'Stop keeping count': How Vernon escapes a mundane sex life in Martin Amis' Let Me Count the Times"

Liam McNamara, "Michel Houellebecq and the Male Novel of Ressentiment"

Hammond Guthrie, "Another Nico-Vali Sunday (Amsterdam, Netherlands, circa 1971)"

Dennis Altman, "Sex, Politics, and Political Economy" (excerpt from Global Sex)

Review: Lawrence Rosenberg on Ordinary Pleasures, by Kay Young

Call for Papers: Atrocity, Outrage, and the Ordinary

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Cover art: Vaginal Rings. Courtesy of the Museum of Contraception, Toronto, Canada. Photo © 1995, Urban Desires. Used by permission of the editors.

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Allison Ruttan, Citrus Salad (1997, digitally created photograph, C-Print 27" x 37").
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