The Sadeian woman: an exercise in cultural history
With invention and genius, Angela Carter explores the outrageous figments of Sade's extreme imagination and transforms them into symbols of our time. "Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to t…
Dines illustrates how today's porn has become absorbed into pop culture and, because of that, how the porn industry has turned even more hard-core, creating profitable niche marketsulike oteen sexo and otorture pornouin their quest to entice a generation of desensitized users.
Can a commitment to free speech be reconciled with the regulation of Pornography? In THE PROBLEM OF PORNOGRAPHY Susan M. Easton argues that it Can. Pornography poses a particularly difficult challenge to legal and Feminist theory: at what exact point does the freedom of the i…
"In The Philosophy of Pornography: Contemporary Perspectives, Lindsay Coleman and Jacob M. Held offer a collection of essays covering a wide range of viewpoints--from issues of free speech and porn's role in discrimination to the impact of porn on sexuality. These essays investi…