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Under dictatorship in Argentina, sex and sexuality were regulated to the point where sex education, explicit images, and even suggestive material were prohibited. With the return to democracy in 1983, Argentines experienced new freedoms, including sexual freedoms. The explosion of the availability and ubiquity of sexual material became known as the destape, and it uncovered sexuality in provocative ways. This was a mass-media phenomenon, but it went beyond this. It was, in effect, a deeper process of change in sexual ideologies and practices. By exploring the boom of sex therapy and sexology; the fight for the implementation of sex education in schools; the expansion of family planning services and of organizations dedicated to sexual health care; and the centrality of discussions on sexuality in feminist and gay organizations, Milanesio shows that the destape was a profound transformation of the way Argentines talked, understood, and experienced sexuality, a change in manners, morals, and personal freedoms.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Poem and the Destape
- 1. The Return to Democracy and the Sexualization of Media Culture
- 2. A Real Challenge to Traditional Sexual Culture?: The Conflicting Messages of the Destape
- 3. Sex in Democracy: The Destape, Sexology, and the Search for Pleasure
- 4. Family Planning, Sex Education, and the Rebuilding of Democracy
- 5. The Other Destape: Feminists, Gay and Lesbian Activists, and the Fight for Sexual Rights
- Epilogue: Sexual Culture in Argentina Today
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index