Pornography category: 118 books
How Pornography Harms
What Today’S Teens, Young Adults, Parents, and Pastors Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Pornography is menacing people, relationships, and society, and this book has the research and stories to prove it.
John D. Foubert, Ph.D., an interdisciplinary scholar who has studied sexual violence since 1993, shares the life stories of more than twenty people directly affected by pornography....
by Andrew Altman, Lori Watson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, debates over pornography have raged, and the explosive spread in recent years of sexually explicit images across the Internet has only added more urgency to these disagreements. Politicians, judges, clergy, citizen activists, and academics have weighed in...
The Pornography Industry
What Everyone Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
We may know pornography when we see it, but the business of pornography is a surprisingly elusive subject. Reliable figures about the industry are difficult to come by and widely disputed, but one matter that is hardly debatable is that pornography is a major and ubiquitous enterprise. Porn allegedly...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
In her pioneering book Hard Core, Linda Williams put moving-image pornography on the map of contemporary scholarship with her analysis of the most popular and enduring of all film and video genres. Now, fifteen years later, she showcases the next generation of critical thinking about pornography and...
by Marilyn Corsianos, Walter DeKeseredy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Violence against Women in Pornography illuminates the ways in which adult pornography hurts many women, both on and off screen. A growing body of social scientific knowledge shows that it is strongly associated with various types of violence against women in intimate relationships. Many women who...
Bad Attitude(s) on Trial
Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Bad Attitude(s) on Trial is a critical analysis of pornography in the context of contemporary Canada. The notion that pornography both reflects sexual domination and 'victimizes' women has recently found expression in law in the landmark Canadian Supreme Court decision of R. v. Butler (1992). Many...
Pornography Embodied
From Speech to Sexual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
What does it mean to conceptualize pornography as a material practice rather than as speech? Mason-Grant argues that this idea, fundamental to the work of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, has been obscured in legal wrangling and political polarization over their civil ordinance. Within the...
Sex and the Civil War
Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards, and stereographs. A perfect storm of antebellum legal, technological, and commercial developments, coupled with the concentration of men fed into...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia, pornography—as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical category—is a modern invention. The contributors to Porn Archives explore how the production and proliferation of pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the...
Perversion for Profit
The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and its attack on the "floodtide of filth"...
The Philosophy of Pornography
Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Even as it skirts the mainstream of contemporary culture, pornography remains a social taboo, and there still exist strong biases both in favor and in opposition to it. This anthology strenuously seeks to present a balance of perspectives on the phenomena of pornography in modern society, presenting...
Pornography and Silence
Culture's Revenge Against Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A masterwork of feminist ideology, brilliantly exposing pornography as the antithesis of free expression and the enemy of liberty
In this powerful and devastating critique, poet, philosopher, and feminist Susan Griffin exposes the inherent psychological horrors of pornography. Griffin argues...
by Marty Klein Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
When you first logged onto the Internet in the 1990s, did you ever wonder, "What do you suppose would happen if the United States were flooded with free, high-quality pornography?" We now know the answer, says Dr. Marty Klein, as this is exactly what took place 15 years ago.
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Investigating Child Exploitation and Pornography
The Internet, Law and Forensic Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2004
Crime scenes associated with child sexual exploitation and trafficking in child pornography were once limited to physical locations such as school playgrounds, church vestibules, trusted neighbors' homes, camping trips and seedy darkly lit back rooms of adult bookstores. The explosion of Internet use...