The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies

The sexual revolution: what meaning can be given to it today? How does sexuality come into being & what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life on a more general plane? Giddens disputes many of the dominant interpretations of the role of sexuality in modern culture. The emergence of what he calls plastic sexuality — sexuality freed from its intrinsic relation to reproduction — is analyzed in terms of the long-term development of the modern social order & s...