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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 1960's, with the emergence of the New Right and its attack on the "floodtide of filth" that was supposedly sweeping the nation. Antipornography campaigns became the New Right's political capital in the 1960's, laying the groundwork for the "family values" agenda that shifted the country to the right. Perversion for Profit traces the anatomy of this trend and the crucial function of pornography in constructing the New Right agenda, which has emphasized social issues over racial and economic inequality. Conducting his own extensive research, Whitney Strub vividly recreates the debates over obscenity that consumed members of the ACLU in the 1950's and revisits the deployment of obscenity charges against purveyors of gay erotica during the cold war, revealing the differing standards applied to heterosexual and homosexual pornography. He follows the rise of the influential Citizens for Decent Literature during the 1960's and the pivotal events that followed: the sexual revolution, feminist activism, the rise of the gay rights movement, the "porno chic" moment of the early 1970's, and resurgent Christian conservatism, which now shapes public policy far beyond the issue of sexual decency. Strub also examines the ways in which the left failed to mount a serious or sustained counterattack to the New Right's use of pornography as a political tool. As he demonstrates, this failure put the Democratic Party at the mercy of Republican rhetoric. In placing debates about pornography at the forefront of American postwar history, Strub revolutionizes our understanding of sex and American politics.

Pornography --- Conservatism --- Literature, Immoral --- Porn --- Porno --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Erotica --- History --- Political aspects --- Sex industry

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International Exposure demonstrates the wealth of desires woven into the fabric of European history: desires about empire and nation, about self and other, about plenty and dearth. By documenting the diverse meanings of pornography, senior scholars from across disciplines show the ways that sexuality became central to the individual, to the nation, and to the transnational character of modern society. The ten essays in the volume engage a rich array of topics, including obscenity in the German states, censorship in France’s Third Republic, “she-male” internet porn, the rise of incestuous longings in England, the place of the Hungarian video revolution in the global market, and the politics of pornography in Russia. Taken together, the essays illustrate the latest approaches to content, readership, form, and delivery in modern European pornography. A substantial discussion of the broad history and state of the field complements the ten in-depth case studies that examine a wide range of sources from literature to magazines, video to the internet. By tackling the highbrow and lowdown of the pornographic form, this volume lays the groundwork for the next surge of studies in the field.

Pornography --- Literature, Immoral --- Porn --- Porno --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Erotica --- History. --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- anno 1800-1999 --- Europe --- Sex industry

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Pornography --- Cleland, John --- Erotic stories, English --- -Prostitutes in literature. --- -Literature, Immoral --- Porn --- Porno --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Erotica --- Prostitution in literature --- English erotic stories --- English fiction --- History and criticism --- History --- -Cleland, John --- Prostitutes in literature. --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- -Prostitution in literature --- Literature, Immoral --- -Cleland, J. G. --- -Prostitutes in literature --- -English erotic stories --- Sex industry

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Pornography --- Literature, Immoral --- Porn --- Porno --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Erotica --- History --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Economic relations. Trade --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- Mass communications --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Europe --- Sex industry --- Trade --- Criminal law --- Book --- Censorship

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This vibrant collection expands the parameters of the feminist debate on pornography. In an effort to move away from the divisive frameworks in feminist disputes over pornography, this volume seeks to understand what pornography means to those who consume it, fight against it, and work within it. By opening up a space for divergent points of view to address the complexity of sexual material this book seeks to forge solidarity among academics, activists, and sex workers from diverse social and political contexts. Feminism and Pornography explores a wide range of contentious issues, including how the meaning of pornography is shaped by changing historical and political realities; the rote law should play, if any, in the sex industry; whether union organizing can change the working conditions in the sex industry; and how sexually explicit literature, videos, art, and music can promote sexual freedom. Contributors include such influential writers as Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Catherine MacKinnon, and Andrea Dworkin.

Féminisme --- Pornographie --- Feminist theory --- Pornography --- Sex-oriented businesses --- -Commercial sex --- Sex businesses --- Sex industry --- Sex-related businesses --- Sex shops --- Sexually oriented businesses --- Business --- Literature, Immoral --- Porn --- Porno --- Erotica --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Feminist theory. --- Pornography. --- Social aspects. --- -Social aspects --- -Business --- Commercial sex --- -Literature, Immoral --- Criminology. Victimology --- Sexology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Féminisme. --- Pornographie. --- Sex-oriented businesses - Social aspects --- Homosexuality --- Female homosexuality --- Sexuality --- Sexually transgressive behavior --- Theory --- Rape --- Book