Colonial porn sex

A coffee table book full of sexualised images of indigenous people exploited by their white masters has hit a nerve in post-colonial France. The book took more than four years to complete, with 97 historians trawling through some private and public collections across the globe in a bid to illustrate the extent that colonial powers exploited the people of the nations they invaded. Not just in countries colonised by France, but also in countries occupied by the Japanese empire and in segregationist America. The domination of land was followed by a domination of bodies

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For a country in the midst of a porn boom , the conversation about online sexual content and its consumption remains incredibly one-sided. But as the writer Richa Kaul Padte finds in her new book, Cyber Sexy: rethinking pornography Penguin Random House India , all kinds of Indians—male, female, trans, gay, lesbian, and even asexual—are not only watching porn but creating their own sexual content online. And technology is transforming the way Indians think about sex and sexual identities. But in her book Padte also traces how technology brings about its own complications, among them the use of online sexual content as a substitute for balanced and informed sex education, and the rise of things like revenge porn. In India, sex is routinely used to sell things like mango juice or chocolate chip cookies, and also considered a somewhat shameful, obscene topic.

That is the question of critics of the French magnificent Sexe, race et colonies. When the book was published in Paris last year, it either aroused disgust and condemnation or received tributes and cheers. The outcry came from both activist feminists and historians, as did the applause. They brought with them 92 other academics to write the texts of the book's more than illustrations of sexual oppression in the French occupations… Dear reader. Come back tomorrow, or log in below if you have a subscription.