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3.0 out of 5 stars
Porn has a history.,
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This review is from: The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture (Paperback)
I read this more than 15 years ago for an undergraduate class at Brown University. (I actually dropped the class 'cuz I was too lazy to write the final paper and I thought the prof rhymed with witch.) In the same way that "Epistemology of the Closet" starts with an interesting anecdote or premise, this author asks, "What do we do when we uncover household objects from Pompeii that show beastiality or backdoor sex and other things that would shock us?" There's a great documentary on DVD about porn that defines the medium as "work of a sexual nature that a segment of the population are not allowed to see." That sure beats Meese's definition. This book asks who gets to see these old artefacts and what does the "censoring" of the material say about our culture. Okay, I'm a bit foggy on the details, but I remember this being a solid text. I recall just enough that I can faithfully say that folk should feel free to read it.
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The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture by Walter M. Kendrick (Paperback - February 6, 1997)
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