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Cadernos Pagu  2012 

Screening Sex: revelando e dissimulando o sexo

DOI: 10.1590/S0104-83332012000100002

Keywords: sex, movies, pornography.

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in this paper, we try to tell the history of the exhibition of sex in movies mainly produced in the united states in almost a century. asking when, why and how the united states became - from a culture that did not exhibit sex - into a culture that exhibits it, the author insists in the double sense of the verb to screen (as both a revelation and a dissimulation). to exhibit is to reveal in a screen. but another, and important, sense, as says the dictionary, is "to protect or hide behind a screen". movies show as well as they reveal. the paper analyzes the way social change in the united states, for example the sexual revolution of the sixties and new views on sexuality allowed new ways of representing sex in the movies, creating a new relation between public and private. the paper also asks how our bodies and senses react to sex in the screen, introducing the idea of "carnal knowledge".

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