Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire

by O'Toole, Laurence

• ISBN13: 9781852427207
• ISBN10: 1852427205
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

In Pornocopia, Laurence O'Toole finds the expansion of the new technologies of video, cable, and the internet is allowing porn to emerge from the shadows as an acceptable form of popular entertainment - out of the red light district and into the sitting room.During a period of enormous public interest in porn and censorship,Pornocopia's lucid mix of reportage and critical analysis has made it the definitive text on the subject. This new edition considers the increasing sexualisation of mainstream culture and contrasts the growing acceptability of porn in the USA with the censorious New Labour era in Britain.Including numerous interviews with porn figures like Paul Thomas, John 'Buttman' Stagliano, Juli Ashton and Chasey Lain, porn activists and the police, Pornocopia is also unique in being the first ever book to consider the role of the porn viewer, including cyberlovers sharing their intimate porn moments with the reader.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
A note on the new edition	ix
Prologue	xi
Definitions	1	(25)
The porn wars	26	(35)
Some history	61	(54)
An Englishman's relish	115	(49)
Not the Wild West: porn in the USA	164	(53)
Child story	217	(29)
The perils of cyberspace	246	(27)
Future sex	273	(24)
Pornocopia	297	(51)
Afterword: porn at the turn of the millennium	348	(27)
Notes	375	(30)
Select bibliography	405	(2)
Videography	407	(4)
Index	411