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Sex Collectorsby Geoff Nicholson
Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 16.99Though you might not encounter the subject in Artforum or stumble across it at Sotheby's, the thriving business of erotica is a mixture of sophistication and seduction, an underground world of eccentric artists and serious collectors. In Sex Collectors, Geoff Nicholson hunts down an assortment of these obsessives around the world. From the Florida grandma with five million dollars' worth of sexual collectibles to Third Eye Blind's manager, who owns more than eighty thousand men's magazines, Nicholson celebrates these collectors and the occasionally beautiful, frequently bizarre, and always fascinating objects they have amassed. He accompanies Linda Lovelace, the star of Deep Throat, as she is taken on a tour of a collection devoted... more...
One for the Girls!by Clarissa Smith
Intellect 2007; US$ 10.00Against the claims of increasing sexualisation of culture, one truism is constantly rehearsed ? that women have little taste for pornography. In One for the Girls!, a new basis for understanding women?s pleasures in sexually explicit materials is offered focusing on the production and consumption of For Women magazine. more...
Images of Blissby Murat Aydemir
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 75.00Aristotle believed semen to be the purest of all bodily secretions, a vehicle for the spirit or psyche that gives form to substance. For Proust?s narrator in Swann?s Way, waking to find he has experienced a nocturnal emission, it is the product of ?some misplacing of my thigh.? The heavy metal band Metallica used it to adorn an album cover. Beyond its biological function, semen has been applied with surprising frequency to metaphorical and narratological purposes. In Images of Bliss, Murat Aydemir undertakes an original and extensive analysis of images of male orgasm and semen. In a series of detailed case studies?Aristotle?s On the Generation of Animals; Andres Serrano?s use of bodily fluids in his art; paintings by Holbein and Leonardo; Proust?s... more...
Pop-Pornby Ann C. Hall; Mardia J. Bishop
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 50.00Provides a guide to some of the most controversial ethical issues of our time at the crossroads of technology and medicine. more...
Sex Carnivalby Bill Brownstein
ECW Press 2000; US$ 11.95A whimsical, eye-opening record of one man’s travels into the bold new world of porn. A guide for the uninitiated and the bewildered, a hands-on intro for anyone who wonders why the porno biz has become so mainstream in just the last few years. Brownstein’s global travels take him from watching Tristan and other sex superstars accept their trophies at the annual porn awards ceremony in Las Vegas to witnessing the weekend shopping sprees of Dutch families as the kids push their grocery carts through the biggest sex supermarkets on earth. He takes us from dungeons and dragons pleasure chambers in New York to a different kind of pleasurethe rough trade in Hamburg. And along the way, he stops off to catch some lap-dancing... more...
Imagining Sexby Sarah Toulalan
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 110.00Imagining Sex examines a variety of material from seventeenth-century England to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it usually subject to suppression. Analysing representations of sex and eroticism in historical context, the book explores contemporary thinking on these issues and wider cultural concerns. - ;Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth-century England. It explores a wide variety of written material from the period to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it one that was usually subject at this time to suppression. Pornographic writing was a widespread feature of a range of texts, including both popular literature (ballads, news-sheets,... more...
Carnal Knowledgeby John Baxter
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99Averitable smorgasbord of sin, John Baxter's Carnal Knowledge is a delightfully unabashed education in sex and erotic culture. Would you ever consent to a knee-trembler at a love hotel? Would you enjoy a hot lunch while watching kinbaku ? Would you consider wearing a French tickler, a merkin, a strap-on, or pasties . . . or would you rather just go commando at the Mine Shaft? From Deep Throat to Debbie Does Dallas , from the mile-high club to the Emperor's Club, John Baxter explains it all to you in this decadently definitive work on the many ins and outs of s-e-x, guaranteed to tantalize, edify, and titillate whether you're a novice or an expert in the arts of eros. more...
Sexual Solipsismby Rae Langton
Oxford University Press, UK 2009; US$ 40.00Rae Langton here draws together her ground-breaking and contentious work on pornography and objectification. She shows how women come to be objectified -- made subordinate and treated as things -- and she argues for the controversial feminist conclusions that pornography subordinates and silences women, and women have rights against pornography. - ;Rae Langton here draws together her ground-breaking work on pornography and objectification. On pornography she argues from uncontroversial liberal premises to the controversial feminist conclusions that pornography subordinates and silences women, and that women have rights against pornography. On objectification she begins with the traditional idea that objectification involves treating a person... more...
Sex for Saleby Ronald Weitzer
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 39.95This book develops a new sub-field on violence in vulnerable populations, with attendant approaches to theory and methods. more...
Dictionary of Erotic Artistsby Eugene C. Burt
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 55.00This is a dictionary of artists known to have produced works depicting sexual imagery throughout the world from ancient times to the present. Each entry offers basic biographical information (e.g., name variants, birth and death dates, geographic associations) and a description of the artist's media and training and artistic output, supplemented in most cases by a list of published reproductions of the artist's erotic work and a bibliography of articles and books that focus on the artist's erotica. more...









