Expert sources and service journalism in the news articles about sex
Abstract
The objective of this study is to analyze the news articles from Spanish digital newspapers in which sex appears understood as pleasure or hedonia. A quantitative content analysis was carried out in which manual and automatic coding were combined. The results indicated that service journalism is present in a fifth of the sample, especially through references to erotic toys that intensify the consumerist aspect of the information, and expert sources, headed by Sexology professionals, appear slightly more than the half of the analyzed news items. The representation of sex as pleasure is limited by the vision of sex as a utilitarian activity, which serves to maintain the couple, and in which sexual performance is in itself an objective, based on the use of erotic toys or self-help, which is guided by experts who intensify the commercialism of hedonia.
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