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A cultural history of sexual content in television shows and TV advertising during the 1970s

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introdution 1
1. KIDDIE PORN VERSUS ADULT PORN
Inter-Network Competition 17
2. NOT IN MY LIVING ROOM
TV Sex That Wasn’t 46
3. THE SEX THREAT
Regulating and Representing Sexually Endangered Youth 76
4. SYMBOLS OF SEX
Television’s Women and Sexual Difference 123
5. SEX WITH A LAUGH TRACK
Sexuality and Television Humor 169
6. FROM ROMANCE TO RAPE
Sex, Violence, and Soap Operas 208
CONCLUSION 253
NOTES 261
BIBLIOGRAPHY 299
INDEX 309

About the Author

Elana Levine is Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Reviews

"Wallowing in Sex is a groundbreaking and important examination of television's significant role in the increasingly sexualized culture of the 1970s. Painstakingly researched and smartly written, it is a crucial addition to the field of television history and, more generally, to the history of popular culture of the recent past. And if you grew up with 1970s television, Wallowing in Sex will make you look at the programming of the era in a thoroughly new light." Aniko Bodroghkozy, author of Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion "Wallowing in Sex is important work: it pushes us to understand the institutional terrain of 1970s American television in the context of the sexual revolution and emergent feminist and gay liberation movements in a manner that no other scholarly work has done before." Tim J. Anderson, author of Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording