An exploration of the personalities and perspectives of the men and women who are part of the adult heterosexual pornography industry. Their stories, as told to the author, reveal the inner workings of "the industry" and the fantasies and motivations of its participants.
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Stoller's self-styled "ethnographic" study of heterosexual pornography consists of reprinting transcripts of his interviews with porn actresses, actors, directors and producers. Much of the material has the aura of a hardcore flesh magazine. Affecting a nonjudgmental attitude, he writes in a short concluding chapter that most porn scripts are not "simply anti-female . . . these stories are often full of freedom--women depicted having a marvelous time." Most pornography "does little good and little harm" except for child porn, he avers. A UCLA professor of psychiatry, Stoller qualifies his position in his summary analysis, stating that anger or rebellion against one's parents and society underlies most pornography, that it exploits men as well as women and that a desire to degrade or be degraded is an element of pornography.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This review is from: Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
If porn is our publicly consumed sexual fantasy, what will we discover by examining the creators and performers of that fantsy world? In a series of minimally edited interviews Stoller explores the realities and fantasies of workers in the heterosexual "porn" industry. The interviews are great. Stoller is a little too apologetic about his not being an anthropologist, but his input as a psychoanalyst sheds a lot of light into an area of study which needs it badly.
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The theories and findings of some studies of human behavior have been weakened by two convictions held by the researchers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
porno industry, porn business, cum shot, sex star, adult theater, male performers, juvenile hall, erotic excitement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
X-rated Industry, Jim Holliday, New York, Los Angeles, Papa Bear, San Francisco, Venus Fair, Hollywood Press, Bill Margold, Eric Edwards, John Leslie, Pretty Girl International, Jamie Gillis, Linda Lovelace, Swedish Erotica, Trophy Girl, Deep Throat, John Holmes, Kay Parker, Meese Commission, Nina Hartley, North Carolina, Prince Andrey, Supreme Court, Traci Lords New!
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The theories and findings of some studies of human behavior have been weakened by two convictions held by the researchers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
porno industry, porn business, cum shot, sex star, adult theater, male performers, juvenile hall, erotic excitement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
X-rated Industry, Jim Holliday, New York, Los Angeles, Papa Bear, San Francisco, Venus Fair, Hollywood Press, Bill Margold, Eric Edwards, John Leslie, Pretty Girl International, Jamie Gillis, Linda Lovelace, Swedish Erotica, Trophy Girl, Deep Throat, John Holmes, Kay Parker, Meese Commission, Nina Hartley, North Carolina, Prince Andrey, Supreme Court, Traci Lords New!
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- Cognitive Science and Psychoanalysis by Kenneth Mark Colby in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Making of Psychological Anthropology by George Dearborn Spindler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer on page 217, and Back Matter
- Intimate Communications: Exotics and the Study of Culture by Gilbert Herdt in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 by Havelock Ellis in Back Matter
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- Strip Show: Performances of Gender and Desire (Gender in Performance) by Katherine Liepe-Levinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Strip Show: Performances of Gender and Desire (Gender in Performance) by Katherine Liepe-Levinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- With Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality by Paul R. Abramson in Back Matter
- Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-Rated Video by Robert J. Stoller in Back Matter
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