Pornography

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593937874Author Howie GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 692Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 1084gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The first publication of Raw Talent created an extraordinary flurry of publicity. Jerry Butler appeared on dozens of talk shows, capturing audiences with his intensity and charm. Reviews of the book lauded Butler's honesty and remarked on the double...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993161605Author Gary WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Commonwealth PublishingPublisher Commonwealth Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001547Author Gail DinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

This book has feminist, vintage photography, and American social themes. Photographs herein pre-date the famed vintage bordello photographs of E.J. Bellocq's Storyville discovered and made famous by Lee Friedlander. The book includes essays by notable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621640066Author Matt FraddFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

Painstakingly honest, this chilling memoir reveals how a teenager became immersed in the bizarre life of legendary porn star John Holmes. Starting with a childhood that molded her perfectly to fall for the seduction of "the king of porn," this...

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of...

Unmasking the lies behind the selling of porn as 'just a bit of fun' Big Porn Inc reveals the shocking truths of an industry that trades in violence, crime and degradation. This fearless book will change the way you think about pornography.About the...

Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Part labor history, part ethnography illuminating the lives of the performers who work in the medium, Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907970979Author Sybille BedfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 108g

The moving, gripping, and tell-all autobiography of Traci Elizabeth Lords, a former child porn queen, electronica maven, and cult movie and TV star. At 14, Nora Kuzma ran away from home and ended up on the dirty streets of Hollywood. She fell in with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Hugo Award (Related Book) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781629638836Author Andrew NetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

From an early age, Amber van de Bunt knew she wasn't like the other girls in town. From childhood struggles with depression and eating disorders, her years as a topless dancer in Florida, and an eventual abortion and suicide attempt, to her rebirth in...

Are you feeling shocked, betrayed, devastated, and downright angry after discovering your husband is addicted to pornography? Are you wondering: how could he do this to me or, why aren't I enough for him? Do you wonder if your marriage is over? Are you...

Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn is a series of essays, blog posts, and stories surveying more than a decade of poignant journalistic accounts from internationally recognized writer, actor, and pornographer Stoya.Stoya provides crucial examinations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593932725Author SekaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Prior to 2000, it was a criminal offence to sell hardcore pornography in Britain. Despite this, there was a thriving alternative economy producing and distributing such material "under the counter" of Soho's bookshops and via mail-order. British...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737893202Author Matt DobschuetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Two Falls PublishingPublisher Two Falls PublishingWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

A contribution to black studies, this book examines the issue of racism in modern society today.Book InformationISBN 9780853157410Author Terri SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Lawrence & Wishart LtdPublisher Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593188798Author John McWhorterFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

A Taste for Brown Sugar boldly takes on representations of black women's sexuality in the porn industry. It is based on Mireille Miller-Young's extensive archival research and her interviews with dozens of women who have worked in the adult entertainment...

On Death and Dying is one of the most important books ever written on the subject and is still considered the bench-mark in the care of the dying. It became an immediate bestseller, and Life magazine called it "a profound lesson for the living." This...

Liara Roux is accustomed to being mislabelled and misunderstood. As a child, Liara's inquisitive, instinctive, and rebellious nature was frequently problematised in a world designed around the requirements of their neurotypical, cis, heterosexual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645037163Author Rachel FeltmanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 258mm * 144mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408499Author Paul B. PreciadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Anthology) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781558618183Author Tristan TaorminoFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Feminist Press at The...

Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. How society should respond to the rise of the sex trade is shaping up to be one of the Twenty-First...

In this now-classic study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does--as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary...

In a world where not everyone believes in God, 'blasphemy' is surely a concept that has passed its use-by-date. And yet blasphemy (like God and religion) seems to be on the rise. In this Very Short Introduction Yvonne Sherwood asks why this should be the...

Do we really know pornography when we see it? Pornography is condemned for being "too close" whilst erotica is defended as "leaving room for the imagination." And the art of the nude is treated as something much more special, located...

Porn Panic! charts the rise of a new social conservatism for the new millennium, coinciding with the collapse of liberalism as a political force. Unlike the old morality movements, this one is focused on the left of politics. Using the language of the...

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...

Porn is everywhere - not just in cybersex and "Playboy" but in popular video games, advice columns, and reality television shows, and on the bestseller lists. Even more striking, as porn has become affordable, accessible, and anonymous, it has become...

The ubiquity of streaming sites such as Pornhub has transformed the social role of sexually explicit content today. Online porn is no longer a shady corner of the internet; it is mainstream. Its production, commodification, and consumption on data-driven...

Hotbeds of Licentiousness is the first substantial critical engagement with British pornography on film across the 1970s, including the “Summer of Love,” the rise and fall of the Permissive Society, the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, and beyond. By...

For many individuals, pornography is a troubling and problematic issue. Regardless of how the public views this topic, one thing is clear: Pornography is as prevalent and accessible as smartphones and laptop computers. Indeed, beyond traditional hardcore...