Porn - Philosophy for Everyone How to Think With Kink

by Allhoff, Fritz; Monroe, Dave; Ponante, Gram

• ISBN13: 9781405199629
• ISBN10: 1405199628
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This anthology takes the ever-controversial discussion of pornography out of solely academic circles; it expands the questions about porn that academics might tackle and opens the conversation to those who know it bestthe creators and users of porn. Features essays on non-traditional issues in porn, including celebrity sex tapes, virtual sex, S&M, homosexual porn, and technology's impact on the porn industry Features fascinating insights from psychologists, a lawyer, and an English professor, as well as industry insiders such as Dylan Ryder A fun, entertaining, and philosophically provocative approach to pornography, written for the general reader

Author Biography

Editor
Dave Monroe is an instructor at the Applied Ethics Institute of St. Petersburg College, Florida, and adjunct instructor of philosophy at the University of Tampa. He is the co-editor of Food & Philosophy, with Fritz Allhoff (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). 

Series Editor
Fritz Allhoff is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword: Filling in the Cave

Dirty Mindedness: An Introduction to Porn - Philosophy for Everyone

Lights, Camera, Action!: Sundry Sexy Thoughts

The Jizz Biz and Quality of Life

Strange Bedfellows: The Interpenetration of Philosophy and Pornography

The Pornographic Mind: Psychology and Porn

Yes. Yes! Yes!! What do Mona's Moans Tell us About her Sexual Pleasure?

Pornography as Simulation

Brothers' Milk: The Erotic and the Lethal In Bareback Pornography

Between the Sheets: Porn Ethics and Personal Relationships

Strange Love, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Porn

Cheating with Jenna: Monogamy, Pornography and Erotica

Celebrity Sex Tapes: A Contemporary Cautionary Tale

Talking Dirty: Legal Issues and Free Speech

One Man's Trash is another Man's Pleasure: Obscenity, Pornography, and the Law

What's Wrong with Porn?

Bumper Stickers and Boobs: Why the Free Speech Argument for Porn Fails

The Art of Dirty: Porn and Aesthetic Value

The 'Fine Art' of Pornography? The Conflict Between Artistic Value and Pornographic Value

An Unholy Trinity: The Beautiful, The Romantic and The Vulgar

The Problem with the Problem with Pornography

Porn and Technology

Something for Everyone: Busty Latin Anal Nurses in Leather and Glasses

Sex, Lies and Virtual Reality

Kink: Alternative Porn and BDSM

What Do Heterosexual Men Get Out of Consuming Girl-Girl Pornography?

Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The 'Violent' Controversy Surrounding SM Porn

Ruminations of a Dominatriz: An Interview with Mz. Berlin

Notes on Contributors

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