This book examines ways of developing research on young people's sexual cultures in the context of a media-saturated and technology-focused contemporary culture, an area of study that remains relatively unexplored despite heightened concern about young people, sex and culture.

Feona Attwood is Professor of Cultural Studies, Communication and Media at Middlesex University, UK. Her research focuses on onscenity; sexualization; sexual cultures; new technologies, identity and the body; and controversial media. Feona is the editor of Mainstreaming sex: The sexualization of Western culture (2009) and porn.com: Making sense of online pornography (2010) and the co-editor of (with Vincent Campbell, I.Q. Hunter and Sharon Lockyer) Controversial images: Media representations on the edge (2013). She co-edits the journal, Sexualities and is the founding co-editor of the journal, Porn Studies.

Clarissa Smith is Professor of Sexual Cultures at the University of Sunderland, UK. Her research focuses on sexual cultures, practices and representations. In particular, she is interested in pornography and other sexually explicit media: their institutional practices, representational strategies, uses and meanings. Her publications include One for the girls! The pleasures and practices of pornography for women (2007), (with Michael Higgins and John Storey) Cambridge companion to contemporary British culture (2010), and (with Niall Richardson and Angela Werndly) Studies in sexualities: Theories, representations, practices (2013). She is the founding co-editor of the journal, Porn Studies.

1. Investigating young people's sexual cultures: an introduction Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith 2. Thinking outside specious boxes: constructionist and post-structuralist readings of 'child sexual abuse' Anne-Marie Grondin 3. Sex and relationships education, sexual health, and lesbian, gay and bisexual sexual cultures: views from young people Eleanor Formby 4. 'Can't talk about sex': producers of children's television around the world speak out Dafna Lemish 5. Too much, too soon? Children, 'sexualization' and consumer culture Sara Bragg, David Buckingham, Rachel Russell and Rebekah Willett 6. Playing with porn: Greek children's explorations in pornography Liza Tsaliki 7. Raunch or romance? Framing and interpreting the relationship between sexualized culture and young people's sexual health Clare Bale 8. Sexual beginners: accounting for first sexual intercourse in Italian young people's heterosexual biographies Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto 9. Lamenting sexualization: research, rhetoric and the story of young people's 'sexualization' in the UK Home Office review Clarissa Smith and Feona Attwood 10. Playing by the rules: researching, teaching and learning sexual ethics with young men in the Australian National Rugby League Kath Albury, Moira Carmody, Clifton Evers and Catharine Lumby