Alex Dymock
Goldsmiths, University of London
15 Papers
53 Citations
Alex Dymock is an academic researcher from Goldsmiths, University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Human sexuality & Harm. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 14 publications. Previous affiliations of Alex Dymock include University of Reading & Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Papers
Pharmacosex: Reimagining sex, drugs and enhancement.
TL;DR: This study exposes the diversity of practices and meanings sex-related drug use hold for participants, but also demonstrates the paucity of biomedical conceptions of sexual enhancement limited to stamina, function and libido, and the need for a more expansive approach.
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Prurience, punishment and the image: Reading ‘law-and-order pornography’
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the application of the pornographic to images of law and order has been refracted back onto the sphere of adult entertainment, in particular, the phenomenon of "revenge pornography".
Flogging sexual transgression: Interrogating the costs of the ‘Fifty Shades effect’
TL;DR: In this article, the Fifty Shades phenomenon is viewed as a work of transgressive erotic fiction that stimulate circuits of female consumption and the production of sexual identity as commodity, rather than a politically progressive utopian strategy that might delimit the parameters of sexual desire, transgression now primarily functions as a mechanism through which capitalism is reinforced and the institutions of heteronormativity maintained.
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Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell
Alex Dymock
- 14 Oct 2013
TL;DR: Angel as discussed by the authors reviewed Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell (Katherine Angel. Allen Lane: London, 2012) and described it as "a book on desire, most difficult to tell".
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Conducting sexualities research: an outline of emergent issues and case studies from ten Wellcome-funded projects
Dylan Kneale,Robert J. French,Helen Spandler,Ingrid Young,Carrie Purcell,Zoë V.R. Boden,Steven D. Brown,Dan Callwood,Sarah Carr,Alex Dymock,Rachael Eastham,Jacqui Gabb,Josie Henley,Charlotte Jones,Elizabeth McDermott,Nolwazi Mkhwanazi,James P. Ravenhill,Paula Reavey,Rachel H. Scott,Clarissa Smith,Matthew Smith,James Thomas,Karen Tingay +22 more
- 19 Sep 2019
TL;DR: This letter seeks to synthesise methodological challenges encountered in a cohort of Wellcome Trust-funded research projects focusing on sexualities and health, finding four common themes found across the projects: inclusivity, representations and representativeness.