Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire

by Laurence O' Toole (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $4.15

  Argues that new technologies are allowing pornography to emerge from the shadows as an acceptable form of popular entertainment. A mix of reportage, interviews and critical analysis, the text takes the reader from a hardcore screening in a trendy West Hollywood multiplex to a hole-in-wall vendor in London's East End; from an English courtroom scene to an adult film production unit in Los Angeles. Pornocopia features interviews with leading porn producers as well as leading porn actresses. It attempts to include the views of the women who make and use pornography. It traces the history of the industry and also of a film genre - from Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones to late-90s porn glamour movies like Latex .

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $5.16

  In Pornocopia , Laurence O'Toole finds the expansion of the new technologies of video, cable and the internet is allowing porn to emerge from the shadows as an acceptable form of popular entertainment - out of the red light district and into the sitting room. This new edition considers the increasing sexualization of mainstream culture and contrasts the growing acceptability of porn in the USA with the censorious New Labour era in Britain. Including numerous interviews with porn figures like Paul Thomas, John Buttman Stagliano, Juli Ashton, and Chasey Lain, porn activists and the police, Pornocopia also considers the role of the porn viewer, including cyberlovers sharing their intimate porn moments with the reader.