Christy Report [Hardcover]

Kim Christy (Author), John Quinn (Author)

Book Description

Series: Special | Publication Date: September 15, 2001

This comprehensive collection of erotic images either collected or produced by Christy's creative team, reflects a pioneering spirit of gender freedom and extremely personal sexual expression. - Includes private collections created in squalid flats of 'New York's hell's kitchen' by the early underground fetish movement, images from the 'Boogie Nights' period of above ground marketing in the 70's to today's lavish DVD spectacles. - Written by John Quinn, and Kim Christy with their combined experience in publishing, film, and the glamorous if bizarre side of adult underground; this volume introduces a taste and desires that once tried, will become undeniably necessary.

Editorial Reviews

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Fabulous mix of culture writing and smut,just what it takes to make a girl comfortable traveling the history of porn. -- Ripsaw News, 3/12/02

This could possibly be the best book ever published about the porn biz. This book is a must have! -- Swank Magazine, March 2002

About the Author

Kim Christy was born in New York City in 1950, and spent several years dancing and performing in famous east coast nightclubs such as the Club 82 and touring throughout the U.S. and Canada before taking a job in 1968 as photo editor for the infamous Eros Publishing Company. Kim’s keen eye for glamour, the bizarre, and the specialty markets was an asset to the company, and Kim served as exclusive photographic coordinator for titles such as Eros, Mode Avantgarde, Hooker and Exposé. After working with legends of the adult industry such as John Holmes, Rene Bond, Seka, Marc Stevens, Jamie Gillis, Harry Reems, Gloria Leonard and many more, Kim went on to produce and direct groundbreaking feature films among them Sulka’s Wedding, Squalor Motel, Corrupt Desires and countless video series. Kim’s film and video work is legendary, and notable for its attention to detail. For more than twenty-five years, cult icon Kim Christy has advocated free speech, the understanding of the! many forms of human sexuality, and the right to freedom of sexual expression for all.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 608 pages
• Publisher: Taschen; 1St Edition edition (September 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3822862142
• ISBN-13: 978-3822862148
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.7 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,626,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Report on porn?, November 22, 2002

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Robin Benson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Christy Report (Hardcover)

This book can hardly be considered an in-depth report on American commercial sexual activity. John Quinn's text, in sixty or so pages, is a superficial overview of the last hundred years illustrated with a few vintage porn and burlesque photos, I would have expected to see examples of Tijuana Bibles, burlesque and film posters, men's magazine covers, video boxes, adult web-site home pages etc, etc. Dian Hansen contributes an interesting short postscript on the future of porn.

What fills the majority of the book are hundreds of hard-core photos which seem to come from the output of Californian porn producer Leoram (they even have an ad on page 440) Kim Christy I guess has some connection with this company.

The book designer, Armando Chitolina from Milan, assumes all this very (interesting) explicit material will bore the readers so he liberally splashes color panels, text and abstract shapes over the photos.

So, not really survey on American erotica, more a visual treat on what men and women get up to in the Los Angeles sex biz!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No scholarship here!, December 9, 2003

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This review is from: Christy Report (Hardcover)

The book has some interesting vintage erotic photos, but virtually no attempt is made to place them in any historical context. The text is uninformative and useless. A waste of money!

5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE THIS BOOK, October 3, 2009

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R. Kelso (out there somewhere) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Christy Report (Hardcover)

OK YEAH, I'M A PERV. (LOL!) NO, REALLY, THIS BOOK IS A GREAT EXPLORATION OF THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF PORN, IT SHOWS, FOR ME AT LEAST, HOW PORN WAS GEARED TOWARD MEN AND WOMEN, BUT HAS TURNED INTO THIS DIRTY GIRL GENRE GEARED TOWARD MEN AND NOT AS SATISFYING FOR WOMEN (AT LEAST NOT THE ONES I KNOW) IT SHOWS THE ARTFULL APPROACH THAT SLOWLY TRANSITIONS INTO THE SLEEZY APPROACH OF COME SHOTS AND HEROIN CHIC.