Marie-Luise Kohlke is a contemporary literature specialist in neo-Victorian fiction and trauma narratives at Swansea University, Wales, and the General and Founding Editor of the peer-reviewed Neo-Victorian Studies e-Journal.Luisa Orza is a writer and researcher in sexual and reproductive rights, with a special interest in power relations, gender, and the dynamics of negotiated dominance and submission.

• AcknowledgementsMarie-Luise KOHLKE and Luisa ORZA: Introduction: The Intricacies of Sexual IdiomsPART I Desiring Subjects and Sexual OthersIlana SHILOH: Spiritual Carnality: Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Temple of the Holy Ghost”Tahseen BÉA: Is My Yearning for You Sexual or Spiritual? Cultivating the Divine between UsJan Peterson RODDY: Country-Queer: Reading & Rewriting Sexuality in Representations of the HillbillyMarie-Luise KOHLKE: Sexsation and the Neo-Victorian Novel: Orientalising the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary FictionPART II Beings and Bodies in Sexual Discourse Shalmalee PALEKAR: Soma-Rasa Kateřina LIŠKOVÁ: Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological, Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on PornographyErzsébet BARÁT: Les-being and Identity Politics: The Intersectionality of Sexual Identity and DesireMarek M. WOJTASZEK: Brokeback Mountain and the Nature of Desire: Love beyond TranscendencePART III Sexibition, Power, and the GazeJennifer TYBURCZY: Perverting the Museum: The Politics and Performance of Sexual ArtefactsBenjamin JACOB: Whore, Court, Church, and Europe’s First Modern Obscene Text Godwin SIUNDU: Imagining Manhoods: Voyeurism and Masculine Anxieties in East African Asian FictionLuisa ORZA: One Notes on Contributors

Marie-Luise Kohlke is a contemporary literature specialist in neo-Victorian fiction and trauma narratives at Swansea University, Wales, and the General and Founding Editor of the peer-reviewed Neo-Victorian Studies e-Journal.Luisa Orza is a writer and researcher in sexual and reproductive rights, with a special interest in power relations, gender, and the dynamics of negotiated dominance and submission.

• AcknowledgementsMarie-Luise KOHLKE and Luisa ORZA: Introduction: The Intricacies of Sexual IdiomsPART I Desiring Subjects and Sexual OthersIlana SHILOH: Spiritual Carnality: Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Temple of the Holy Ghost”Tahseen BÉA: Is My Yearning for You Sexual or Spiritual? Cultivating the Divine between UsJan Peterson RODDY: Country-Queer: Reading & Rewriting Sexuality in Representations of the HillbillyMarie-Luise KOHLKE: Sexsation and the Neo-Victorian Novel: Orientalising the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary FictionPART II Beings and Bodies in Sexual Discourse Shalmalee PALEKAR: Soma-Rasa Kateřina LIŠKOVÁ: Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological, Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on PornographyErzsébet BARÁT: Les-being and Identity Politics: The Intersectionality of Sexual Identity and DesireMarek M. WOJTASZEK: Brokeback Mountain and the Nature of Desire: Love beyond TranscendencePART III Sexibition, Power, and the GazeJennifer TYBURCZY: Perverting the Museum: The Politics and Performance of Sexual ArtefactsBenjamin JACOB: Whore, Court, Church, and Europe’s First Modern Obscene Text Godwin SIUNDU: Imagining Manhoods: Voyeurism and Masculine Anxieties in East African Asian FictionLuisa ORZA: One Notes on Contributors

Marie-Luise Kohlke is a contemporary literature specialist in neo-Victorian fiction and trauma narratives at Swansea University, Wales, and the General and Founding Editor of the peer-reviewed Neo-Victorian Studies e-Journal.Luisa Orza is a writer and researcher in sexual and reproductive rights, with a special interest in power relations, gender, and the dynamics of negotiated dominance and submission.

• AcknowledgementsMarie-Luise KOHLKE and Luisa ORZA: Introduction: The Intricacies of Sexual IdiomsPART I Desiring Subjects and Sexual OthersIlana SHILOH: Spiritual Carnality: Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Temple of the Holy Ghost”Tahseen BÉA: Is My Yearning for You Sexual or Spiritual? Cultivating the Divine between UsJan Peterson RODDY: Country-Queer: Reading & Rewriting Sexuality in Representations of the HillbillyMarie-Luise KOHLKE: Sexsation and the Neo-Victorian Novel: Orientalising the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary FictionPART II Beings and Bodies in Sexual Discourse Shalmalee PALEKAR: Soma-Rasa Kateřina LIŠKOVÁ: Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological, Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on PornographyErzsébet BARÁT: Les-being and Identity Politics: The Intersectionality of Sexual Identity and DesireMarek M. WOJTASZEK: Brokeback Mountain and the Nature of Desire: Love beyond TranscendencePART III Sexibition, Power, and the GazeJennifer TYBURCZY: Perverting the Museum: The Politics and Performance of Sexual ArtefactsBenjamin JACOB: Whore, Court, Church, and Europe’s First Modern Obscene Text Godwin SIUNDU: Imagining Manhoods: Voyeurism and Masculine Anxieties in East African Asian FictionLuisa ORZA: One Notes on Contributors