Amber Martin

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the changing spatiality of the sex retail industry in England and Wales, from highly regulated male orientated sex shops, pushed to the legislative margins of the city and social respectability, towards the emergence of unregulated female orientated "erotic boutiques" located visibly in city centres.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the extensive sales and widespread popularity of the Fifty Shades trilogy has placed BDSM in the sexual spotlight and explore how this is being capitalized upon by some sex shops and sex toy retailers by encouraging consumers to bring the erotic fiction of Fifty Shades into their own sexual reality through the purchase of particular commodities and the acquisition of BDSM related sexual knowledge.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the post-feminist tensions between female sexual subjectivity and objectivity, by unpacking, and reflecting on, the relations between erotic boutiques and the space of the body.

TL;DR: This article discussed the difficulty of translating scholarly work for the public in a context where impact is increasingly important and the challenges that academics face in finding new ways of speaking about sex in public.