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Sexual Fascism

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When ‘Sexual Fascism’ was first published it was censored from review by sections of the media. No pun intended – but it’s not hard to see why! The book critically examined the treatment of sexuality in the Scottish media. Garry Otton’s popular, acerbic monthly blog appeared on its own website, the Scottish Media Monitor, between 1995 and 2005. Monitoring tabloid campaigns like ‘SmutWatch’ and ‘Name and Shame’, it covered a turbulent period in Scotland's sexual history from the massacre of a classroom of children in Dunblane to the notorious ‘Keep the Clause’ campaign driven by militant religionists, the Catholic Church, the Daily Record, a former Sun editor and Stagecoach millionaire, Brian Souter. The book covers the extraordinary moral panic behind stories like the police officer who arrested a man with a snake down his trousers; a child’s doll with a penis; a woman ordered to remove a display of male dolls too close together in her window and a spray that detected traces of sex! The book’s darker side exposes the privileges religion enjoys in the Scottish media and how they are used to the Church's advantage.

Language: English

Pages: 268

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: December 01, 2001

Sexual Fascism

0/5 ( ratings)

When ‘Sexual Fascism’ was first published it was censored from review by sections of the media. No pun intended – but it’s not hard to see why! The book critically examined the treatment of sexuality in the Scottish media. Garry Otton’s popular, acerbic monthly blog appeared on its own website, the Scottish Media Monitor, between 1995 and 2005. Monitoring tabloid campaigns like ‘SmutWatch’ and ‘Name and Shame’, it covered a turbulent period in Scotland's sexual history from the massacre of a classroom of children in Dunblane to the notorious ‘Keep the Clause’ campaign driven by militant religionists, the Catholic Church, the Daily Record, a former Sun editor and Stagecoach millionaire, Brian Souter. The book covers the extraordinary moral panic behind stories like the police officer who arrested a man with a snake down his trousers; a child’s doll with a penis; a woman ordered to remove a display of male dolls too close together in her window and a spray that detected traces of sex! The book’s darker side exposes the privileges religion enjoys in the Scottish media and how they are used to the Church's advantage.

Language: English

Pages: 268

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: December 01, 2001

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