Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-609) and index.
Contents:
A Wednesday in November -- Down the rabbit hole -- The night we met the Clintons -- The Bubba boomer -- On the third wave -- Empowerment icons -- The crying game -- A vagina travelogue -- The glory of O -- Culture warriors, man your battle stations -- Wanderlust -- The wild blue web -- Don't ask, don't tell -- The age of the long lie -- The oversexed, underexamined, media-soaked yadda yadda of everyday life -- Botox, booties, and bods -- the bust boom -- Celebrity sin -- Four moments that changed the narrative -- The Boomsie twins -- Objects in mirror are tinier than they appear -- Shadows on the wall of the man cave -- Dudes and subdudes -- Porn goes pop -- Chez Fleiss -- Hard currency -- The lowest-hanging fruit -- Culture wars, part II -- The hardener's tale -- Homo erectus -- The internet and the intern -- Afterword: The Trumpen Show.
Summary:
Discusses how the rise of the Internet, reality television, and tabloid culture transformed the boundaries of sexuality in the 1990s, providing first-hand accounts by such individuals as Monica Lewinsky, Joan Rivers, and Jesse Jackson.
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