Publisher's Synopsis
Socially, sex is many different things: it is both the reproductive mechanism of the species and a key component of culture in all its manifestations. It is a blurred concept that is associated with positive elements related to health and pleasure, but that is also associated with shame and sin. It is a fundamental process in the development of pre-adults, and yet, it is considered exclusive to the "adult world".
The fact that society itself maintains ambiguous and ambivalent positions on such an essential subsystem for the human social system makes it a structural problem, which, therefore, negatively affects the well-being of society and the mental health of citizens. Society needs to find the necessary means to solve this problem, generated artificially and that is still fully in force.
This is an investigation on how and why sex is taboo in Western society and investigates some processes, in which all social actors intervene, through which the sexual fetish is manifested.
