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By Jennifer Doyle (2006)

Jennifer Doyle proves that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday life: exciting, ordinary, emotional, traumatic, embarrassing, funny, and even boring. Sex Objects examines the reception and misunderstanding of sexualized images, words, and performances. Sex Objects challenges simplistic readings of sexualized art and investigates what such works tell us about the nature of desire through discussions on the "boring parts" of Moby Dick, the scandals that plagued the painter Thomas Eakins, the role of women in Andy Warhol's films, "bad sex" and Tracey Emin's evocative line drawings, and L.A. artist Vaginal Davis's pornogrpahic parodies of Vanessa Beecroft's performances.

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