ABSTRACT
In recent years, in Australia and elsewhere, hypersexuality has proliferated across a range of media. This chapter examines the mutual investment that the media has in raunch culture and women's hypersexual representations. It highlights the need for scholarly work on hypersexual urbanism from an architectural and urban perspective in examining the critical contexts for hypersexual cities. By increasing the knowledge and connections between the disparate parts, it is hoped that designers and critical thinkers will be primed to address issues of hypersexual urbanism in productive ways. Hypersexual representations in urban space have implications that have not been addressed in the field of architecture. Given that hypersexuality has been outside critique in architecture but keenly taken up by media and cultural theory, questions about how best to approach the spatial phenomena of hypersexuality are imperative. One of the results of the postfeminist position is that women's choice to participate in hypersexuality legitimizes its inclusion and subsequent acceptance in the urban realm.
