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Studies

  • “The Culture Wars & the Mainstreaming of the Sexual Marketplace,” Journal of Popular Culture, forthcoming 2020.

  • “Sex Wars: How Sexual Pleasure Became a $50 Billion Industry and Subverted the Culture Wars,” Sexuality, Gender & Policy, vol 2, no. 1, June 27, 2019.  https://doi.org/10.1002/sgp2.12004
  • “Secrets of the Sexual Fetish: How Sin Became the New Normal,” Logos, a journal of modern society & culture, Summer 2016, Vol. 15, Nos. 2-3.; http://logosjournal.com/2016/rosen/

  • “Sexual Terrorism,” Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia on Gender and Sexuality (2016); http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss004/full

  • Sexting & the Pornographic Imagination — Where the “Digital Pubic, Digital Private” Intersect PP Presentation, “Media In Transition,” MIT Media Lab, 2013. MiT-Sexting.pdf
  • “Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama: Assessing Obama’s First Term,” in Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, ed. Jeffrey St. Clair (AK Press, 2012); http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1849351104/counterpunchmaga
  • “’130 Parties in 30 Days” in The Political Edge, ed. Chris Carlsson (City Lights Books, 2004).

 

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DAVID ROSEN is a widely published author whose books include
Sex, Sin & Subversion: The Transformation of 1950s New York’s Forbidden into America’s New Normal (2016); Sex Scandal America: Politics & the Ritual of Public Shaming (2009); Off-Hollywood: The Making & Marketing of Independent Films (1991), originally commissioned by the Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project. He is author of many scholarly articles, book reviews and popular pieces on media-tech, telecom, politics, sex and American life.

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