"For many Americans, the emergence of a "porno chic" culture provided an opportunity to embrace the sexual revolution by attending a film like Deep Throat (1972) or leafing through an erotic magazine like Penthouse. By the 1980s, this pornographic moment was beaten back by the r…
"Or many Americans, the emergence of a "porno chic" culture provided an opportunity to embrace the sexual revolution by attending a film like Deep Throat (1972) or leafing through an erotic magazine like Penthouse. By the 1980s, this pornographic moment was beaten back by the ri…
"For many Americans, the emergence of a "porno chic" culture provided an opportunity to embrace the sexual revolution by attending a film like Deep Throat (1972) or leafing through an erotic magazine like Penthouse. By the 1980s, this pornographic moment was beaten back by the r…
Can the pornographic be said to have existed in Greece and Rome? This new group of essays points to some striking similarities between our culture and those of the ancient world, challenging Foucauldian assumptions about the nature of sexuality. Covering such topics as vase pain…
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.
"To all intents and purposes, Henry Spencer Ashbee was a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman. But his well-upholstered chambers in Gray's Inn concealed a shocking secret: Ashbee's vast collection of erotica and pornography, thousands of volumes strong." "Acclaimed bio…
Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. From the first interracial screen kiss of 1903, through the Production Code's nearly thirty-year ban on depictions of "miscegenation," to the contemplatio…
Problematic pornography viewing is a considerable social problem. Those who are heavily religious (i.e. scrupulous), report the most problems associated with their pornography use, as well as objective usage rates. The integrated model of problematic pornography viewing suggests…