The Regulation of Sex-Themed Visual Imagery

Lyombe Eko is a Professor at the College of Media and Communication, Texas Tech University, USA. He is the author of New Media, Old Regimes: Case Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy (2012) (Gold Medal Winner, Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2014), and American Exceptionalism, the French Exception and Digital Media Law (2013). His research has been published in numerous journals, including Communication Law and Policy, the Journal of Internet Law, the Loyola (Los Angeles) International and Comparative Law Review, The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law, and the International Communication Gazette. Eko has served as a journalist, producer, and TV program translator at the African Broadcasting Union (URTNA) in Nairobi, Kenya, and at Cameroon Radio and Television Corporation.  

1. Introduction: From Clay Tablets to Tablet Computers: Rationales for the book, theoretical approach, and summary of chapters
PART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL APPROACHES
2. Theoretical Perspectives: Explicit Visual Sexual Imagery as Rule-based Representations
3. Explicit Sex-themed Visual Imagery as Regulated Representations in the Ancient Near East: Babylon, Assyria and Egypt
4. 'Pornography' and the heterogeneous, sex-themed Visual Imagery of Ancient Greece as Regulated Representations
5. Explicit Sex-themed Visual Imagery as Regulated Representations in China and Japan
6. Regulation of the Entwinement of the Sacred and the Sensual in Indian Art
7. Clash of Civilizations: Deterritorialization of Judeo-Christian Legislative texts to the Greco-Roman World
8. Explicit Visual Sexual Imagery as regulated representations during the Roman Empire, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment
9. Regulation of Sex-themed Visual Imagery in the Muslim World: The Persian, Mughal & Ottoman Empires
PART II: AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND REGULATION OF EXPLICIT VISUAL SEXUAL IMAGERY
10. Regulation of the Tension Between Agape and Eros: Regulation of Explicit Visual Sexual Imagery in the United States
11. Pedagogy of the Repressed: Sexual Liberation, Sexual Capitalism and Freedom of Expression in the United States
12. Sexual Capitalism, Organized Crime and the Regulation of Explicit Sex-themed
13. The First Amendment, Municipal Agents and ExplicitVisual Sexual Imagery on the Internet: Can a government worker be a Playboy centerfold?
14. Explicit Sex-themes Visual Sexual Imagery and Intellectual Property Law
PART III: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO REGULATIONS OF EXPLICIT SEX-THEMED VISUAL IMAGERY
15. Visual Sexual Imagery, Freedom of Expression and Women's Rights: American and Canadian Approaches
16. Regulation of Online Pedopornography in the United States and France
17. Epilogue: Looking back and Looking Forward: The Regulation of Sexting and Revenge Porn