Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography
Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography

Author: Jeffrey Escoffier

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2021-02-12

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 197882016X

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Hardcore pornographic films combine fantasy and real sex to create a unique genre of entertainment. Pornographic films are also historical documents that give us access to the sexual behavior and eroticism of different historical periods. This book shows how the making of pornographic films is a social process that draws on the fantasies, sexual scripts, and sexual identities of performers, writers, directors, and editors to produce sexually exciting videos and movies. Yet hardcore pornographic films have also created a body of knowledge that constitutes, in this digital age, an enormous archive of sexual fantasies that serve as both a form of sex education and self-help guides. Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography focuses on sex and what can be learned about it from pornographic representations.

Pornography in a Free Society
Pornography in a Free Society

Author: Gordon Hawkins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521406000

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Pornography in a Free Society deals with what has been called the 'civil war over smut'. It addresses an issue about which citizens of Western nations are sharply divided. Gordon Hawkins and Franklin Zimring attempt to look at the problem of pornography in a wider perspective than that of partisan political debate. To that end, they compare two American reports on pornography commissioned by Presidents Johnson and Reagan, the first published in 1970 and the latter in 1986, with the report of the British Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship, which appeared during the years between the American reports. They discuss the radical feminist challenge to pornography and the question of pornography and children. Going on to consider likely future developments, the authors argue that the furore over pornography and the appointment of commissions are part of a 'ceremony of adjustment' to widespread availability of sexually explicit material and they predict less social concern about pornography as time passes.

What Pornography Knows
What Pornography Knows

Author: Kathleen Lubey

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2022-09-13

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1503633128

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What Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts were edited across time to become what we think pornography is—a genre focused primarily on sex. Originally, they were far more variable, joining speculative philosophy and feminist theory to sexual description. Lubey's readings show that pornography always had a social consciousness—that it knew, long before anti-pornography feminists said it, that women and nonbinary people are disadvantaged by a society that grants sexual privilege to men. Rather than glorify this inequity, Lubey argues, the genre's central task has historically been to expose its artifice and envision social reform. Centering women's bodies, pornography refuses to divert its focus from genital action, forcing readers to connect sex with its social outcomes. Lubey offers a surprising take on a deeply misunderstood cultural form: pornography transforms sexual description into feminist commentary, revealing the genre's deep knowledge of how social inequities are perpetuated as well as its plans for how to rectify them.

A Hypersexual Society
A Hypersexual Society

Author: K. Kammeyer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-11-10

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0230616607

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As many can attest, the prevalence of sexual imagery has increased in modern society over the past half century. In this timely new study, Kenneth Kammeyer traces the historical development of sexual imagery in America and society's preoccupation with it, all within a firm theoretical and sociological framework.

Porn Generation
Porn Generation

Author: Ben Shapiro

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-02-05

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 162157105X

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Shapiro captures a generation through first-person reporting, interviews with refugees from the porn industry, conversations with psychologist, educators, and students, and a telling cultural critique.

Pornography
Pornography

Author: Gail Dines

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1135251002

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First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sexual Deviance and Society
Sexual Deviance and Society

Author: Meredith G. F. Worthen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-10

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1317593375

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In a society where sexualized media has become background noise, we are frequently discouraged from frank and open discussions about sex and offered few tools for understanding sexual behaviors and sexualities that are perceived as being out of the norm. This book encourages readers to establish new ways of thinking about stigmatized peoples and behaviors, and to think critically about gender, sex, sexuality and sex crimes. Sexual Deviance and Society uses sociological theories of crime, deviance, gender and sexuality to construct a framework for understanding sexual deviance. This book is divided into four units: Unit I, Sociology of Deviance and Sexuality, lays the foundation for understanding sex and sexuality through sociological frameworks of deviance. Unit II, Sexual Deviance, provides an in depth dialogue to its readers about the sociological constructions of sexual deviance with a critical focus on contemporary and historical conceptualizations. Unit III, Deviant Sexual Acts, explores a variety of deviant sexual acts in detail, including sex in public, fetishes, and sex work. Unit IV, Sex Crimes and Criminals, examines rape and sexual assault, sex crimes against children, and societal responses to sex offenders and their treatment within the criminal justice system. Utilizing an integrative approach that creates a dialogue between the subjects of gender, criminology and deviance, this book is a key resource for students interested in crime and deviance, gender and sexuality, and the sociology of deviance.

Governing Pleasures
Governing Pleasures

Author: Lisa Z. Sigel

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 9780813530024

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How did concepts of sex & gender, race & class, home & empire develop in Victorian society? Here, Sigel charts the evolution of these ideas through the medium of pornography (PN). She details its prod'n., dist'n., & cons'n. in Great Britain between Waterloo & WWI. Sigel examines how this medium changed over time to explore key questions: How did Brit. society define PN? Who had access to it? What did people make of its ideas? And how did these messages affect sexual & social dynamics? PN offered people a way to make sense of sexuality & its relationship to the world during the transition of Brit. society from an era of radical politics to one of consumer pleasures. Illustrated with literary & visual materials drawn from public & private collections.

The Sacred Temptation: Male, Female and a Short History of Pornography
The Sacred Temptation: Male, Female and a Short History of Pornography

Author: Maria Arnoldt Wilson

Publisher: The Rainbows

Published: 2023-03-17

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 3757914481

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Sex is the most primitive human instinct and also weapon. But there is always a tendency to hide it below the quilt especially if it is female sexuality. Just as people have learned to eat raw meat after cooking it, they have turned sex into an art through fantasy, style, and enjoying the pleasures of sensation. 'Having sex' has turned into 'making love'.In the transformation from primitive matriarchal social structure to patriarchal power-structure, women have been largely deprived. This deprivation is not only political or economic but also mental and physical. Therefore, the liberation of sexuality is necessary to overcome the discrimination between men and women. We will briefly look at this journey of sexuality. We would like to see how male 'power' was created, how it hindered the psychological development of women and how successful sex can be used as a way to eliminate the existing inequality between men and women. Men can run like a rooster and go down like a duck. It takes time for a woman to burn, it also takes time to extinguish. As women's demands on sex began to become clear and their passive roles as well as active roles in sex arose, the need to control women also arose. As sexual intercourse, posture diversity, orgasm, women's desire and reluctance started to come, the establishment of control structures like religion, ethics etc. started to control her. It turns out that in a patriarchal society, men's only defeat began to occur in sex. Even if the male conquers, the fear of his erect penis or premature ejaculation makes him afraid of women. So comes the need of pornography to control female sexuality and female orgasm to bend her desires according to male's wish? The name of Argentina's 'El Sartorio' or 'El Satario' emerges as the oldest pornography film. In this film, the union of men and women was shown. The cameras captured various mating poses. Experts claim that this film was the first close-up display of private parts....

Perversion for Profit
Perversion for Profit

Author: Whitney Strub

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0231148860

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Whitney Strub illustrates the crucial function of pornography in constructing the New Right agenda, which emphasized social issues over racial & economic inequality. He situates the fight over obscenity within the politics of 1950s pop culture & the pivotal events that followed, including the sexual revolution & feminist activism.