What We Don't Talk About: Sex and the Mess of Life

This examination of a sexual culture in crisis challenges the notion of sex. Author JoAnn Wypijewski does this by examining the most famous sex panics of the last decades, such as the HIV crisis, the paedophile priest panic, Woody Allen, Brett Kavanaugh, child pornography, and Abu Ghraib, and exploring all these issues in their nuance. Wypijewski argues that these panics and the expansion of the punitive state are intertwined, and that the ever-expanding language of monsters and victims contributes to the repressive power of the state.

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