Selling sexual liberation: Women -owned sex toy stores and the business of social change
This study considers the history and cultural specificity of women-owned sex stores in the United States, and the particular model of sexual retailing that has evolved alongside these businesses—what I refer to as the Good Vibrations model, a “tasteful,” educationally based, and quasi-therapeutic ap...
Main Author: | Comella, Lynn |
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Language: | ENG |
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2004
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3152682 |
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