The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here
by Carmine Sarracino, Kevin M. Scott
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Author: Carmine Sarracino, Kevin M. ScottEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-01
ISBN: 0807061530
Number of pages: 251
Publisher: Beacon Press
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- ISBN13: 9780807061534
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Review: Works for me
Summary: 5 Stars
Fascinating, and very readable without losing the critical, scholarly element. Great introduction to the topic, with just enough details and just enough broadness to leave a reader informed and, perhaps, ready to dive into more specific research. Provides a broad and interesting history of the "porning" of America, and most intriguingly, is able to pull that off without attaching any particular negative or positive connotation to the word "porning." The authors are refreshingly honest about their difficulty in deciding what is either good or bad about porn, and in deciding "where we," as a society, "go from here."
Covers: historical relationship between war and pornography, Civil war -- Iraq; the puritan sex-shame that much pornography still fuels off; sexualization of children, men, women, and the elderly; Feminism and pornography; detailed history of pornography from 70's till 2007 (ish).
Great balance of clear, concise, and sharp writing with solid facts and hardly a paragraph of wasted words. This book was well organized and coherently progressive from end to end.
If you are looking for a particularly bold assertion about whether porn is "good or bad," or, if you are looking for any detail about homosexuals and pornography, this is probably NOT your ideal book.
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