[PDF] The Real Porn Wars eBook

Author : Kelsy Burke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1635577373

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For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at pornography in all its facets - historical, religious, and cultural. In the 1960s, sex researchers Masters and Johnson declared the end of the fake orgasm. Nearly two decades later, in 1982, evangelical activist Tim LaHaye foretold that the entire pornography industry would soon be driven out of business. Neither prediction proved true. Instead, with the rise of the internet, pornography saturates the American conscience more than ever and has reshaped our understanding of sexuality, relationships, media, and even the nature of addiction. Dr. Kelsy Burke has spent the last five years researching and interviewing internet pornography's opponents and its sympathizers. In The Pornography Wars, Burke does a deep dive into the long history of pornography in America and then turns her gaze on our present society to examine the ways this industry touches on the most intimate parts of American lives. She offers a complete understanding of the major players in the debates around porn's place in society: everyone from sex workers, activists, therapists, religious leaders, and consumers. In doing so, she addresses and debunks the myths that surround porn and porn usage while showing how everything from the way we teach children about sex to the legal protections for what can be published is tied up in the deeply complicated battles over pornography. Sweeping, savvy, and deeply researched, The Pornography Wars is a necessary and comprehensive new look at pornography and American life.

Author : Frank Zappa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0671705725

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Recounts the career of the rock music performer.

Author : Roy Scranton
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,46 MB
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616957166

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"One of the best and most disturbing war novels in years." —The Wall Street Journal “War porn,” n. Videos, images, and narratives featuring graphic violence, often brought back from combat zones, viewed voyeuristically or for emotional gratification. Such media are often presented and circulated without context, though they may be used as evidence of war crimes. War porn is also, in Roy Scranton’s searing debut novel, a metaphor for the experience of war in the age of the War on Terror, the fracturing and fragmentation of perspective, time, and self that afflicts soldiers and civilians alike, the global networks and face-to-face moments that suture our fragmented lives together. In War Porn three lives fit inside one another like nesting dolls: a restless young woman at an end-of-summer barbecue in Utah; an American soldier in occupied Baghdad; and Qasim al-Zabadi, an Iraqi math professor, who faces the US invasion of his country with fear, denial, and perseverance. As War Porn cuts from America to Iraq and back again, as home and hell merge, we come to see America through the eyes of the occupied, even as we see Qasim become a prisoner of the occupation. Through the looking glass of War Porn, Scranton reveals the fragile humanity that connects Americans and Iraqis, torturers and the tortured, victors and their victims.

Author : Helen Hester
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438449615

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Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept. This original contribution to porn studies aims to interrogate previously untheorized changes in contemporary understandings of the pornographic. Helen Hester argues that the words “porn” and “pornographic” are currently being applied to an ever-expanding range of material and that this change in language usage reflects a wider shift in perception. She suggests that we are witnessing a seemingly paradoxical move away from sex within contemporary understandings of porn, as a range of other factors come to influence the concept. Using examples from media, literature, and culture, and discussing the rise of notions such as “torture porn” and “misery porn,” Hester’s argument ranges from sexually explicit German novels and British policy documents to a discussion of the differences between European and American editions of pornographic films. She concludes that four factors in particular—transgression, intensity, prurience, and authenticity—can be seen to influence the way that we think about porn.

Author : Wendy McElroy
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 1997-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780312152451

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While unflinchingly and unapologetically debunking anti-pornography feminist arguments, McElroy builds a sensible and broad-minded testimony for tolerance, and for the right of women everywhere to enjoy their sexuality.

Author : Tristan Taormino
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 155861818X

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The Feminist Porn Book celebrates the power of desire, turning the spotlight on an industry where feminism is thriving.

Author : Stephen Arterburn
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0307457974

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Updated for a new generation, a resource for overcoming sexual temptation shares the stories of men who have escaped sexual immorality and offers a practical plan for achieving sexual integrity.

Author : Marge Piercy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2005-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060789832

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Post–Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jobs to earn passage to America for her family. Learning that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city, she begins a determined search that carries her from tenement to brothel to prison—as her story interweaves with those of some of the epoch's most notorious figures: Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B. Anthony; sexual freedom activist Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president; and Anthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, whose censorship laws are still on the books. In the tradition of her bestselling World War II epic Gone to Soldiers, Marge Piercy once again re-creates a turbulent period in American history and explores changing attitudes in a land of sacrifice, suffering, promise, and reward.