Wednesday, September 14 2011
Tainted Pasts: Pornography in ‘Meet Monica Velour’ and ‘The Girl Next Door’
Meet Monica Velour and The Girl Next Door demonstrate that mainstream representations of pornography, even in a society in which sex proliferates, are still surprisingly one-sided and inconsistent with counter-narratives offered by industry insiders themselves.
Tuesday, May 26 2009
Hella Nation by Evan Wright
Wright’s gift is his ability to trace a story through time and weave together a piece that is chilling in both subtlety and revelation.
Tuesday, April 28 2009
Licentious Gotham by Donna Dennis
The book is not necessarily a history of erotic publishing as much as the history of erotic publishing’s clash with the law.
Wednesday, October 29 2008
The Porning of America by Carmine Sarracino & Kevin Scott
Fast forward 30 years and find that the behavior and attitudes we associate with pornography have only become more omnipresent since porn’s heyday.
Tuesday, May 15 2007
A Moral Pornographer?
Can pornographic literature impart a lesson in morality? Author Tamara Faith Berger believes it can.
