Adult movie star Jenna Jameson's nearly 600-page autobiography (in publishing, as in porn, size obviously matters) begins at puberty with, appropriately enough, the onset of her breasts and pubic hair. She immediately starts dressing "like a hoochie mama," and turning heads all over Las Vegas. With a family relationship that can safely be ...
When Ayn Carrillo-Gailey confronted her boyfriend about his porn habit, he pronounced her pornophobic. Determined to prove she wasnt phobic, simply more enlightened, Ayn set out to learn all she could about this phenomenon. Like any good researcher, she added her new quest to her daily To-Do list: * 1. Drop off dry cleaning * 2. Call Mom * ...
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.
For the past five years, psychiatrist Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross has been answering the questions of professional people and families who have been faced with the care of the dying. Doctors, nurses, clergymen, and social workers, as well as lay people, have gathered in workshops around the country to ask her questions arising out of their experiences ...
In our culture, porn makes the man. So argues Robert Jensen in Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity. Jensen's treatise begins with a simple demand: "Be a man." It ends with a defiant response: "I chose to struggle to be a human being." The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of ...
Catharine MacKinnon shows how pornography can only be treated as "speech", as the law at present defines it, if the voices of women, abused and humiliated by it, are both silenced and denied. She also portrays the language of pornography, showing it to be both lethal and debasing.
In America today the intense and controversial debate over the censorship of pornography continues to call into question the values of a modern, democratic culture. This collection of ten critical essays traces the history and various uses of pornography in early modern Europe, offering the historical perspective crucial to understanding current ...
In Ordeal, she shocked the world with her harrowing life story. Now Linda Marchiano struggles day to day with the ghosts of her past: public scorn, disbelief, savage interviews, courtroom appearances, and a marriage under fire.
The gulf between critics of pornography and those who use it seems unbridgeable. Not only do the two sides disagree about its effect on society and individual men and women, they cannot even agree on what it is. Where one finds objectification, subordination, degradation, and violence against women, the other sees beauty, fun, pleasure, female ...
Once a taboo vice no one dared to mention, porn has become affordable, accessible, anonymous, and increasingly acceptable. This volume's investigation will further the discussion of how and where porn meets the public eye.
From the murder of schoolgirls in a rural Amish community to the widespread rape of women in the Sudan to sexual predators on the Internet, this volume explores the persistent, pervasive phenomenon of gendered violence in the United States and around the world. In the fully revised second edition of this path-breaking anthology, the editors bring ...
Mediated sex is everywhere. In popular cinema and television, the press, pop music and advertising, images of sexuality abound. Pornography has spread, not only in its mainstream, heterosexist forms, but in gay communities and in "porn for women". Cable and satellite television and the coming of the Internet have intensified the trend. It is ...
In a collection of 40 essays, men candidly examine the role of pornography in their own lives--seldom heard voices in the explosive controversy over the impact of pornography versus the constraints of censorship.
"Money Shot" chronicles the African American porn industry's steady rise to the mainstream. Lawrence Ross, a prominent journalist and lecturer, details a year in the life of porn star Lexington Steele, whose eleven-inch penis and $75,000 per-movie-fee made him one of the most famous figures in the porn industry. Beginning and ending with ...
An exploration of the connections between the global economy and sex work, focusing on the experiences and views of women, men and children who sell sex. Apart from attention to sex tourism in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Barbados and Jamaica, the book also examines sex work in the gold mining industry in the hinterlands of Suriname and Guyana, ...
Money, sex, danger and power - it's all in a days work for the typical sex worker. This book aims to provide a window into the world of sex workers, their customers, and the growing sex industry - in America and abroad. It is a collection of essays on sex work, its risks, and its political implications. The book includes studies on telephone sex ...
Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audience, and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of Victorian pornography in particular, Steven Marcus offers a startling and revolutionary perspective on the underside of Victorian culture. The subjects dealt with in "The Other Victorians" are not only those to have been ...
"Making Violence Sexy" chronicles women's resistance to pornography over the last twenty years. It does this in a collection of feminist articles, including testimonies by victims/survivors of pornography that together make a convincing case for the view that pornography (as distinct from erotica) causes harm to women, including acts of violence. ...
Few things are more misunderstood and cause more fear and suspicion than the combination of female sexuality and the Internet. Naked on the Internet explores how women use cyberspace, personally and professionally, to learn about themselves, connect with others, and make a living. Author Audacia Ray then goes further, examining the Internet as a ...
The first publication of "Raw Talent" created an extraordinary flurry of publicity. Jerry Butler appeared on dozens of talk shows, capturing audiences with his intensity and charm. Reviews of the book lauded Butler's honesty and remarked on the double standard that permits explicit violence on film - but not explicit sex. The book sold out four ...
In "Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Linda Williams put moving-image pornography on the map of contemporary scholarship with her path-breaking analysis of the most popular and enduring of all film and video genres. Now, fifteen years later, she showcases the next generation of critical thinking about pornography and ...
First published in 1987, and recently reissued with an updated afterword that traces the shift in attention from print pornography to electronic images, Kendrick's arguments illuminate many of the exclusively American obsessions and taboos in the debate over pornography.
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