About this title: From the golden age of comic books in the 1940s and 1950s to the adult film industry's golden decade of the 1970s and up to today, the authors trace porn's transformation--from lurking in the dark alleys of American life to becoming an unapologetic multibillion-dollar industry.
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Edition: First edition. Advanced Reading Copy. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780807061534ISBN:0807061530
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Pr
Date Published: 2008-09-01
ISBN-13:9780807061534ISBN:0807061530
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780807061534ISBN:0807061530
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: BEACON
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780807061541ISBN:0807061549
Description: New. From the golden age of comic books in the 1940s and 1950s to the adult film industry's golden decade of the 1970s and up to today, the authors trace porn's transformation--from lurking in the dark alleys of American life to becoming an unapologetic m... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: 2008-09-01
ISBN-13:9780807061534ISBN:0807061530
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: BEACON
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780807061534ISBN:0807061530
Description: New. From the golden age of comic books in the 1940s and 1950s to the adult film industry's golden decade of the 1970s and up to today, the authors trace porn's transformation--from lurking in the dark alleys of American life to becoming an unapologetic m... read more
"To be honest, this book really acts much more as a history lesson of porn in our culture. Very little of the book is spent examining the state of porn today and how it affects our culture - so the "Where We Go from Here" portion of the title is a bit misleading.
Overall an interesting, if somewhat disheartening read (on the social level). It neither defends nor attacks porn, which leads it to read quite well factually... but also seems to try too hard to not take a side that it doesn't give any sort of sense of urgency or importance."
"Here's the book in a nutshell: As porn becomes more mainstream, we become more porned. That is, we view ourselves and our culture in increasingly sexualized terms. Accurate? Yes. Depressing? Yes. Do the authors have any suggestions for what can be done? Not really.
I guess that's what makes this book a rather futile read. Sarracino and Scott make it pretty clear that they're in favor of "good" porn: porn that shows people who respect each other and are both interested in receiving pleasure. And they're definitely against "bad" porn: the degrading, misogynistic fare that makes up most of the market. But they're also against censorship. So... huh. Now what?
The most informative part of the book was the discussion of how violence and porn are increasingly connected, and how that is the next step in our collective "porning." They make a good case for the fact that the infamous pictures of Abu Gharib are partially a product of this trend, and that similar scenes must be expected in the future. But once again, they really don't offer any suggestions on how to change this. An essay or article focusing on this aspect would have been much stronger than this rather drawn-out and (sorry, I can't resist) anti-climactic book."
"I knew that my country had fallen into the pornographic sewer, but until I had read this book, I did not know how far. That's the reason I give the book two stars: It taught me something. I did not know, for instance, that mainstream ad campaigns now incorporate allusions to the money shot and porn facials. This is, of course, sickening and depressing, but I did learn something I did not know, and because I am not a Republican dittohead, I consider this a good thing. Otherwise, though, the book is idiocy. The authors wrote this book to sound the alarm about violently degrading porn that might well bring Nazi horrors to these shores and the generally porned atmosphere that threatens the innocence of children. But the authors make it very clear that they are not against all porn. Porn that doesn't celebrate domination of men over women but recognizes everyone's sexual joy is actually good. But porn that is stuck in the thesis-antithesis of domineering stud and submissive slut is really bad. This produces Nazi porn and leads straight to the horrors of Abu Ghraib. The book is pretty much a plea for a Hegelian dialectic of porn, in which the end of history happens when everyone acknowledges one another as a happy and equally empowered sex worker (as long as the sex workers are of legal age, or course, and their videos are kept in places where the kids can't find them). The authors actually suggest that good sex education programs can bring this about. So much for the authors' concern about a child's innocence, I guess. I could imagine a teacher asking, "Okay, class, why is bukakke bad porn?" One kid raises his hand, "Because the sperm sometimes gets on the lens and then you can't see nothing." "No," the teacher says somewhat irked, "it's bad because the woman is merely passive and not empowered." And the teacher shows good porn directed by Jenna Jameson. It's good, the teacher explains, because although the actresses seem to be depraved, filthy sluts, that's okay because, well, a woman is directing it and that means a woman now will receive her long overdue Hegelian recognition as a porn king! Isn't that inspirational, kiddies? Geez."
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