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9781573927505

Porn 101

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    9781573927505

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    1573927503

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Summary

This wide-ranging collection of essays is based on papers delivered at a world conference on pornography held in Los Angeles. Representatives of the legal and academic communities, including many internationally renowned scholars and First Amendment lawyers and members of the adult entertainment industry join to discuss the effects of pornography on its audience: censorship; gay and child pornography; phone sex; feminism and sexuality; erotic film and video as a genre; the range and history, from classical antiquity to the present, of pornography in literature and the plastic arts; and related topics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. 9
Introductionp. 11
Foreword: In Defense of Pornographyp. 13
Great War Stories: Warriors and Their Battles Over Obscenity
In the Realm of the Sciences: The Kinsey Institute's 31 Photographsp. 32
How a Family-Planning Experiment Became a Sex-Products Businessp. 53
Art, Literature, and Obscenity in the United States Supreme Courtp. 65
My Years Defending Playboyp. 76
Freedom of Cyberspeechp. 83
Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union: The 1996 Communications Decency Actp. 92
Expert Witnesses
Pornography: The Expert Witnessp. 105
Importance of Knowledge as an Expert Witnessp. 117
The Social Scientist as Expert Witnessp. 137
Sex, Censorship, and the Battle Over Morality
Censorship and the Fear of Sexualityp. 145
Censorship by Any Other Namep. 156
Sex Fights Back: How to Succeed in Politics Without Being Electedp. 160
Sex, Pornography, and Religion: From Sodom to Corinth to the San Fernando Valleyp. 166
America Unchained: Tattoos, Piercings, and Pornp. 174
Women, Feminism, Sexuality, and Censorship
Removing Sex from Sex: Mainstream Feminism's Incomplete Dialoguep. 185
Topping from Below: Does Female Dominant Pornography Endorse the Rape of Women?p. 192
Using Porn to Bridge the Mind-Body Gapp. 203
What Is Feminist Porn?p. 207
Women Who Make Porn: The Influence of Gender on the Content and Approach of Porn Videosp. 211
The Research on, Experience of, and Effects of Pornography
The Pornography Question: Main Event or Sideshow?p. 219
The Effects of Pornography: An International Perspectivep. 223
Effects of Pornography on Sexual Offendingp. 261
Pornography as a Research Tool: Exploring Fundamental Issues in Human Sexualityp. 279
The Experience of Pornographyp. 284
Pornography, Censorship, and the Classroom
Porn Wars on Campusp. 297
(Sexual) Quotation Without (Sexual) Harassment? Educational Use of Pornography in the University Classroomp. 301
Intention versus Interpretation: Personal Experiences with the Radical Right (Pornography Didn't Make Me Do It ... the Christian Coalition Did)p. 332
A View of Film and Video as a Genre
A History of Modern Pornographic Film and Videop. 341
Going Gonzo! The American Flaneur, the Eastern European On/Scene, and the Pleasures of Implausibilityp. 352
Ed Powers and the Fantasy of Documenting Sexp. 359
Our Erotic Heritage: From Literature to Toys to Comic Books
The Pornographic Tradition: Formative Influences in Sixteenth- to Nineteenth-Century European Literaturep. 369
Un-Banning Books: How the Courts of the United States Came to Extend First Amendment Guarantees to Include Pornographyp. 396
Erotic Witness: The Rise and Flourishing of Genitally Explicit and Sex Act Explicit Heterosexually Oriented Photographic Magazines in the U.S., 1965-1985p. 414
A Serious Look at the Amazing Phenomenon of Erotic Comic Booksp. 427
A Short History of Sex Toys with an Extrapolation for the New Centuryp. 437
"In Their Own Words": The Actors and Actresses of the Pornography Industry
All-Star Porn Panelp. 447
Gay, Bi, Lesbian, and Transgendered Pornography
Gay Porn/Queer Eroticap. 457
Notes on the New Camp: Gay Video Pornographyp. 465
Beyond "Looking for My Penis": Reflections on Asian Gay Male Video Pornp. 473
Cross-Gender Identification in Commercial Pornographic Filmsp. 479
Representations of S/M in the Gay Community: The Radical 1970sp. 492
Child Pornography: Forbidden Thoughts and Images in an Erotic Landscape
The Forbidden Image: Child Pornography and the First Amendmentp. 501
Sexual Abuse, Anti-Sexuality, and the Pornography of Powerp. 520
Sources of Reaction to "Child Pornography"p. 527
Historical Aspects of Pornography
Classical Roman Perspective on the Erotic, Obscenity, and Pornographyp. 535
Same and Other Victoriansp. 545
The Pornography of Proximity: From the Nineteenth-Century Stereoscope to the Presentp. 551
The Marquis de Sade's Juliette: Libertinism, Female Agency, and Pornographyp. 557
Should We Read de Sade?p. 574
App. I: Authors and their Affiliationsp. 579
The Organizations of "X"p. 586
Bibliography of the Major First Amendment Cases and the Current State of Obscenity Law in Americap. 595
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