Pornification: sex and sexuality in media culture
Presents an international overview of how pornography - from soft core to hard core, gay to straight, female to male, black to white - infiltrates through our media. Exploring music videos, alt porn sites, Cosmogirls and Gaydar online forums, and more, this work analyses the tra…
Exploring music videos, Cosmogirls, Gaydar online forums, streetadvertising, retro pin-ups, film and educational sex videos the contributors describe the transformation of porn in today's media and its impact on culture.
""Pornification" presents an international overview of how pornography - from softcore to hardcore, gay to straight, female to male, black to white - infiltrates and proliferates through our media." "Exploring music videos, Cosmogirls and Gaydar online forums, H & M's street adv…
Ashbee was a wealthy and respectable Victorian gentleman. But his smart chambers in Gray's Inn concealed a shocking secret: a collection of erotica and pornography. Acclaimed biographer Ian Gibson has created a marvellous portrait of Ashbee.
"In the mid-1970s, American feminists formed grassroots organizations to protest the proliferation of advertisements, films, and other popular media that glorified sexual violence against women. They pioneered feminist analyses of these images, which were thought to promote sexi…
In the mid-1970s, American feminists formed grassroots organizations to protest the proliferation of advertisements, films, and other popular media that glorified sexual violence against women. They pioneered feminist analyses of these images, which were thought to promote sexis…
On hard core pornographic cinema.
"In this now-classic study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does - as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality." "For…