Phil Shining is an interdisciplinary researcher and writer focused on sex life cultivation, arts of living, and practice-oriented spirituality. Phil is the founder and director of the Sexuality and Spirituality Research Network (S&SRN), where he creates academic projects and edits its own books. He is an empirical sexual practice researcher assembling critical theory with Tantra, Yoga, Taoism, and Buddhism in training sessions and self-management programs. Phil is, along with Nicol Michelle Epple, co-editor and contributor to the book Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality: An Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Field (Brill, 2021). sexualityandspirituality.org / philshining.netJON BRADDY is an Associate Professor of Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he teaches Queer Theory. Dr. Braddy’s work has appeared in Exploring Erotic Encounters: The Inescapable Entanglement of Tradition, Transcendence and Transgression, eds. John T. Grider and Dionne van Reenen (Brill, 2019) and Expanding and Restricting the Erotic: A Critique of Current and Past Norms, eds. L. Buttigieg, S. Kanaouti, L. M. Evangelista, and R. S. Stewart (Brill, 2020). He has served as editor of the Florida Communication Journal. His work is heavily informed by philosophy, media theory, and cultural studies. Beyond Jon’s printed work, he has produced documentaries on varied topics including Liberation: One Generation After Apartheid, among others.

• ForewordPrefaceList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction to the “New Normal” Biopolitics, Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic WorldPhil ShiningPart 1Beyond Repression: Defying the Moral Codes of 21st Century Authoritarianism1 Transgressing the New Normal Sexuality and Obscenity in a Post-pandemic SpainAssumpta Sabuco Cantó2 A Media Pandemic Sexualized Right-Wing Populism and the Politics of Mis-sublimationSophia Kanaouti3 A Room of Whose Own? Pleasure and Privacy in Pre-and Post-pandemic HavanaDara E. GoldmanPart 2Beyond Sex: Embodying Pleasure and Sexuality in Times of Social Distancing4 Pleasure in the Face of Death Poetry and Self-realizationRita Dirks5 The Touch We MissNebojsa KujundzicPart 3Beyond Gender: Challenging Patriarchal and Heteronormative Sex Education through Alternative Pornography6 Alt Porn as a New Sexual ScriptDionne van Reenen and Robert Scott Stewart7 Sex & Love in the Time of Quarantine Re-signifying Gender and Erotic Representations—Erika Lust-StyleLily Martinez Evangelista and M. Emilia BarbosaPart 4Beyond the Senses: Immersing into Self-exploration through Visual and Plastic Arts8 The Hunger for Touch Fatih Akin’s Gegen die Wand (Head-On) and the Cinema of SensationŞebnem Nazlı Karalı and George Karpathakis9 pros-thesisLawrence Buttigieg10 Scream at Life The Self as Erotic FigureJon BraddyPart 5Beyond the Ego: Embracing the Spiritual Possibilities of Desire11 The Era of the Erotic Understanding Epochal Change through Tantra and ChristianityJohn R. Dupuche12 Sex Life Cultivation Ars Erotica as an Alternative to Sex Education and Sex TherapyPhil ShiningIndex

Phil Shining is an interdisciplinary researcher and writer focused on sex life cultivation, arts of living, and practice-oriented spirituality. Phil is the founder and director of the Sexuality and Spirituality Research Network (S&SRN), where he creates academic projects and edits its own books. He is an empirical sexual practice researcher assembling critical theory with Tantra, Yoga, Taoism, and Buddhism in training sessions and self-management programs. Phil is, along with Nicol Michelle Epple, co-editor and contributor to the book Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality: An Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Field (Brill, 2021). sexualityandspirituality.org / philshining.netJON BRADDY is an Associate Professor of Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he teaches Queer Theory. Dr. Braddy’s work has appeared in Exploring Erotic Encounters: The Inescapable Entanglement of Tradition, Transcendence and Transgression, eds. John T. Grider and Dionne van Reenen (Brill, 2019) and Expanding and Restricting the Erotic: A Critique of Current and Past Norms, eds. L. Buttigieg, S. Kanaouti, L. M. Evangelista, and R. S. Stewart (Brill, 2020). He has served as editor of the Florida Communication Journal. His work is heavily informed by philosophy, media theory, and cultural studies. Beyond Jon’s printed work, he has produced documentaries on varied topics including Liberation: One Generation After Apartheid, among others.

• ForewordPrefaceList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction to the “New Normal” Biopolitics, Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic WorldPhil ShiningPart 1Beyond Repression: Defying the Moral Codes of 21st Century Authoritarianism1 Transgressing the New Normal Sexuality and Obscenity in a Post-pandemic SpainAssumpta Sabuco Cantó2 A Media Pandemic Sexualized Right-Wing Populism and the Politics of Mis-sublimationSophia Kanaouti3 A Room of Whose Own? Pleasure and Privacy in Pre-and Post-pandemic HavanaDara E. GoldmanPart 2Beyond Sex: Embodying Pleasure and Sexuality in Times of Social Distancing4 Pleasure in the Face of Death Poetry and Self-realizationRita Dirks5 The Touch We MissNebojsa KujundzicPart 3Beyond Gender: Challenging Patriarchal and Heteronormative Sex Education through Alternative Pornography6 Alt Porn as a New Sexual ScriptDionne van Reenen and Robert Scott Stewart7 Sex & Love in the Time of Quarantine Re-signifying Gender and Erotic Representations—Erika Lust-StyleLily Martinez Evangelista and M. Emilia BarbosaPart 4Beyond the Senses: Immersing into Self-exploration through Visual and Plastic Arts8 The Hunger for Touch Fatih Akin’s Gegen die Wand (Head-On) and the Cinema of SensationŞebnem Nazlı Karalı and George Karpathakis9 pros-thesisLawrence Buttigieg10 Scream at Life The Self as Erotic FigureJon BraddyPart 5Beyond the Ego: Embracing the Spiritual Possibilities of Desire11 The Era of the Erotic Understanding Epochal Change through Tantra and ChristianityJohn R. Dupuche12 Sex Life Cultivation Ars Erotica as an Alternative to Sex Education and Sex TherapyPhil ShiningIndex

Phil Shining is an interdisciplinary researcher and writer focused on sex life cultivation, arts of living, and practice-oriented spirituality. Phil is the founder and director of the Sexuality and Spirituality Research Network (S&SRN), where he creates academic projects and edits its own books. He is an empirical sexual practice researcher assembling critical theory with Tantra, Yoga, Taoism, and Buddhism in training sessions and self-management programs. Phil is, along with Nicol Michelle Epple, co-editor and contributor to the book Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality: An Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Field (Brill, 2021). sexualityandspirituality.org / philshining.netJON BRADDY is an Associate Professor of Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he teaches Queer Theory. Dr. Braddy’s work has appeared in Exploring Erotic Encounters: The Inescapable Entanglement of Tradition, Transcendence and Transgression, eds. John T. Grider and Dionne van Reenen (Brill, 2019) and Expanding and Restricting the Erotic: A Critique of Current and Past Norms, eds. L. Buttigieg, S. Kanaouti, L. M. Evangelista, and R. S. Stewart (Brill, 2020). He has served as editor of the Florida Communication Journal. His work is heavily informed by philosophy, media theory, and cultural studies. Beyond Jon’s printed work, he has produced documentaries on varied topics including Liberation: One Generation After Apartheid, among others.

• ForewordPrefaceList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction to the “New Normal” Biopolitics, Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic WorldPhil ShiningPart 1Beyond Repression: Defying the Moral Codes of 21st Century Authoritarianism1 Transgressing the New Normal Sexuality and Obscenity in a Post-pandemic SpainAssumpta Sabuco Cantó2 A Media Pandemic Sexualized Right-Wing Populism and the Politics of Mis-sublimationSophia Kanaouti3 A Room of Whose Own? Pleasure and Privacy in Pre-and Post-pandemic HavanaDara E. GoldmanPart 2Beyond Sex: Embodying Pleasure and Sexuality in Times of Social Distancing4 Pleasure in the Face of Death Poetry and Self-realizationRita Dirks5 The Touch We MissNebojsa KujundzicPart 3Beyond Gender: Challenging Patriarchal and Heteronormative Sex Education through Alternative Pornography6 Alt Porn as a New Sexual ScriptDionne van Reenen and Robert Scott Stewart7 Sex & Love in the Time of Quarantine Re-signifying Gender and Erotic Representations—Erika Lust-StyleLily Martinez Evangelista and M. Emilia BarbosaPart 4Beyond the Senses: Immersing into Self-exploration through Visual and Plastic Arts8 The Hunger for Touch Fatih Akin’s Gegen die Wand (Head-On) and the Cinema of SensationŞebnem Nazlı Karalı and George Karpathakis9 pros-thesisLawrence Buttigieg10 Scream at Life The Self as Erotic FigureJon BraddyPart 5Beyond the Ego: Embracing the Spiritual Possibilities of Desire11 The Era of the Erotic Understanding Epochal Change through Tantra and ChristianityJohn R. Dupuche12 Sex Life Cultivation Ars Erotica as an Alternative to Sex Education and Sex TherapyPhil ShiningIndex