A World Made Sexy is about power and pleasure, emancipation and domination, and the relationship between the personal passions and social controls that have crafted desire.

Pa l Rutherford is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of several books published by UTP, includingWhen Television Was Young (1990),The New Icons? (1994),Endless Propaganda (2000),Weapons of Mass Persuasion (2004), andWorld Made Sexy (2007).