Sexualities and Consumption

Abstract

Sexualities are performed, interpreted, and known through consumer choices and practices, and they are also constructed through representation in and by consumer spaces and media. The network of connections between sexualities and consumption has raised critical questions for researchers around the possibilities for, and limitations of, a greater visibility for marginalized sexual identities, given that visibility in consumer culture is contingent on economic value. Scholarship has explored the ways in which sexual bodies, practices, and identities are commodified, and the reproduction of power relations and social inequalities this often entails.