How to Build a Durkheimian Sex Room

Netflix’s new show How to Build a Sex Room attempts to de-stigmatise sex in United States culture through the interior design services being offered to a sex room. In this episode, Vivian Asimos and Aled Thomas talk about How to Build a Sex Room, and it’s Durkheimian use of language of sex as something set aside and special. We talk about religion as sacred vs profane, and where sex fits into this dichotomy. We talk about how United States and United Kingdom culture privatises sex while also, paradigmatically, making sex so inherently part of every part of our everyday experience.

Check out Alison Robertson’s book Play, Pain and Religion here.

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