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Dreamland

Dave Hickey

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Not what I expected 2 out of 5 stars.
4 of 7 people found this review helpful.

As a another customer commented, you might expect the contents of this book to reflect the photo on the cover. But that would be a mistake. If you're expecting something along the lines of Roffman or Underhill, this book isn't for you -- the subject matter is grittier and the suggestive nudity depicts mixed sexes in many shots. Most surprising, though, is that most of the pages aren't sexual at all and instead seem to focus on the Hollywood sign, L.A. buildings, and nature scenes.

Editorial Review:

An expert and precisely selective journey through the sunshine noir of greater Los Angeles, Jeff Burton's first American publication documents a well-worn but little-known trail from the Hollywood sign to the San Fernando Valley: that of the porn industry in which he works. Burton's images, veritable picnics of fragmented flesh, feature figures assembled in oblique repose, lounging around poolsides, or drifting through the rococo Valley vernacular of rooms for hire. In amongst the fountains and foliage of L.A. are the pussies, pets, and hairless cushions of human flesh that stud Burton's suburban sets. Photographed in voluptuous and lingering detail, Burton's bizarre but serene compositions proffer an exquisitely refracted take on action in dreamland. A book to be savored for repeated viewing pleasure.

Child Pornography: An Internet Crime

Ethel Quayle

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Does the Internet engender sexual abuse of children? How do you identify sex offenders on the Internet?

The availability of child pornography on the Internet has become a cause of huge social concern in recent years. This book considers the reality behind the often-hysterical media coverage of the topic. Drawing on extensive new research findings, this book examines how child pornography is used on the Internet, identifies the social context in which such uses occur, and develops a model of offending behavior to better help understand and deal with the processes of offending. Detailed interviews and offenders' own accounts are used to illustrate the processes involved in offending and treatment.

Arguing that we need to refine our ideas of offending, and that while severe deterrents need to be associated with possession of child pornography, the authors contend that a better comprehension is needed of the links between possession and committing a contact offence. Thisbook is an essential read for anyone involved with offenders or victims, from a psychological, judicial or social background.

Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America

Laura Kipnis

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In a book that completely changes the terms of the pornography debate, Laura Kipnis challenges the position that porn perpetuates misogyny and sex crimes. First published in 1996, Bound and Gagged opens with the chilling case of Daniel DePew, a man convicted—in the first computer bulletin board entrapment case—of conspiring to make a snuff film and sentenced to thirty-three years in prison for merely trading kinky fantasies with two undercover cops.
Using this textbook example of social hysteria as a springboard, Kipnis argues that criminalizing fantasy—even perverse and unacceptable fantasy—has dire social consequences. Exploring the entire spectrum of pornography, she declares that porn isn’t just about gender and that fantasy doesn’t necessarily constitute intent. She reveals Larry Flynt’s Hustler to be one of the most politically outspoken and class-antagonistic magazine in the country and shows how fetishes such as fat admiration challenge our aesthetic prejudices and socially sanctioned disgust. Kipnis demonstrates that the porn industry—whose multibillion-dollar annual revenues rival those of the three major television networks combined—know precisely how to tap into our culture’s deepest anxieties and desires, and that this knowledge, more than all the naked bodies, is what guarantees its vast popularity.
Bound and Gagged challenges our most basic assumptions about America’s relationship with pornography and questions what the calls to eliminate it are really attempting to protect.

G-Man

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

G is for gorgeous 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

Sometimes less is more and with this book. It is totally, great photo's from beginning to end some of them revealing and some of them not so much. But this is for the better each photo has something offer just about anybody. After checking out G-man, i'm wanting more of this in spades.

A visual feast - a huge talent! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 7 people found this review helpful.

Glen Hanson has produced so much artwork of amazing quality. This latest project is just a wonderful as all the rest, interesting, beautiful, unusual - you have to get this book!

Glitzy but static 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This book left me a bit cold. Great colors and all, but the guys here are so self-centered and self-absorbed, and I couldn't feel they could tell me something. Much better Hanson in Chelsea Boys, and if you're looking for beautiful boys with feeling, look at Joe Phillips' boys!

Editorial Review:

Hanson's gay pop art icons are fun! Provocative, wicked, sometimes obscene, Canadian all-around talent Glen Hanson draws his sexy dream guys in brilliant colours. Different kinds of men hoppers - all very American, play boldly with gay fantasies and stir up unfulfilled longings.

The Dirty Little Secret: Uncovering the Truth Behind Porn

Craig Gross

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Hope for the hurting, or more of the same old thing? 3 out of 5 stars.
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I first heard about the XXXChurch website a couple of years ago. It looked like an edgy idea by a young Christian man called to stand against porn in the Church. I applauded his courage for confronting the issue head-on, and liked that he leavened his stand with some humor. "Dirty Little Secret" is from Craig Gross, the founder of this organization. As the title suggests, porn is something the Church sweeps under the narthex rug. Since I wage my own battle against self-medication, I was interested in what he had to say.

"Dirty Little Secret" isn't bad. The author is passionately against porn, but not in a judgmental or holier-than-thou way. He and his cohorts set up booths at porn conventions to provide a way out for those who produce and act in adult movies. They also seek to help church leaders deal with their usage, since it has become almost epidemic in the pastoral community. That kind of "grace with teeth" is better than the legalistic and shame-based approach of most churches (when they aren't in denial, that is).

However, despite the author's good intentions, books like this one have a fatal flaw. They are big on showcasing porn's worst-case consequences, but short on providing solid ways of prevention and adequate solutions for addicts (or even dabblers). Like in war, no one gets into porn with the goal of becoming a casualty. Casual indulgers become blase after years of not even coming close to experiencing the hell of a raging porn addict. The more insidious consequences of dabbling, such as subtle effects on dating or marriage relations, should've merited more exploration. It seems that because porn is so easy to get (especially with the advent of the Internet), prevention has been abandoned in favor of focusing on treatment. The author discusses intensive isolation therapy, counseling, and accountability via friends and/or software. But like Mr. Gross, I've seen this stuff fail over and over again. At least he's honest about the shortcomings of these methods.

Is there hope for those trapped in porn? My adventures in sanctification have included counseling, doing ministry, healing services, memorizing Scripture, accountability, small groups, reading tons of books, and even dating/courting. The result? I'm not mired in addiction, and I have grown as a Christian (at least I hope so). However, the ugly truth about focusing on methods is that once you're done with them (or they are done with you), you're still you. If your Achilles heel(s) remain the same, then it's easy to become discouraged and tempted to retreat into familiar ways of medicating. What's worse, the Church will often let you go on your merry way. My experience with church leadership is that as a man, you are an asset as long as you have it "together." But once you're struggles are revealed and you are working through brokenness, you're a liability. Usually you get segregated from the "healthy" Christians and thrown into a recovery group, where the blind lead the blind and true healing is an ever-elusive goal. Some tout marriage as both a preventative and a solution. But Christian women get so freaked out about any hint of porn usage in one's past (never mind the present) that they aren't much help. However, I digress.

I'm reminded of the story Jesus told about casting out a demon. The demon wanders through dry places, and decides to return to the person it was ejected from. The creature finds its old home swept and in order. But nothing of substance is there to hinder its return, and it moves back in with seven other demons more vile than itself. In the end, the person is worse off than before. Yes, "Dirty Little Secret" shows that the "demon" of porn is bad. But there's not much about shaping one's character to avoid it, or how to fill the demon's old home in a more sanctified manner.

Ultimately, navel-gazing and bullet-point methods haven't worked for me or anyone else that I know of. Indeed, focusing on the sin and white-knuckling it may provide short-term "victory." But in the end this approach is an exercise in failure. Strugglers may need to simply hit bottom like the Prodigal Son, and then get picked up and put back together by a supportive community - if one can be found. For the long-term, perhaps an intense interpersonal ministry that gets our juices flowing in the direction of God and others (versus ourselves and our pet sin) is a solution. I hope that the search for healing is itself half of the battle, and that a merciful God will gird up his garment and run to meet us with love and succor. But so far I'm discouraged with how the Church deals with its more obviously wounded members.

At any rate, I salute "Dirty Little Secret" for spotlighting the problem of porn in the Church. I'm also impressed with the XXXChurch's ministry to those folks in the adult film industry. But I'm skeptical about the solutions it puts forth for the user of porn, whether casually or addictively. We've become immune to way-out cautionary tales and frustrated with tired old methodologies that make us "acceptable" but don't provide true change. A deeper way in Christ is needed, and I pray that the author perseveres toward that end in his ministry. So for now, I can only give a guarded, but hopeful, recommendation for "Dirty Little Secret."

Editorial Review:

In 2005 porn reached epidemic proportions and affected almost everyone. This book is about Craig Gross, a young pastor helping those inside the world of porn, and the stories, insights, and secrets he’s learning on his journey.

I, Goldstein: My Screwed Life

Al Goldstein

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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The key distinction between Al Goldstein and Hugh Hefner is that the last thing on earth Al would be caught doing is taking himself seriously. Otherwise, given the amount of trouble Al has seen, his autobiography reads more like a tragedy than the absurd, uproarious comedy it is. Like a fat tiger with nine lives, Al Goldstein constantly collides with his own mortality, yet has survived for 69 years, so far. Recently, after finally succeeding in cannibalizing his entire fortune, Goldstein toughed his way through a full year homeless on the streets of New York — merely his latest accomplishment. Al's list of priors involve two dozen arrests, four ex-wives, Mafia hit contracts, thousands of death threats, innumerable medical procedures, and constant legal attack throughout his 34 years publishing Screw. Al's blood enemies include politicians, D.A.'s, CEO's and religious officials. When Goldstein was acquitted on pornography charges in Wichita, Kansas, in 1978, he flew the entire jury to New York to celebrate at Plato's Retreat, and took them all out to dinner on the anniversary of his acquittal. This landmark victory thereafter insured the right of Americans to view buck-ass naked sex with or without redeeming social value.

Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean

Kamala Kempadoo

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This volume explores the connections between the global economy and sex work, focusing on the experiences and views of women, men, and children who sell sex.

Watching Sex: How Men Really Respond to Pornography

David Loftus

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

The gulf between critics of pornography and those who use it seems unbridgeable. Not only do the two sides disagree about its effect on society and individual men and women, they cannot even agree on what it is. Where one finds objectification, subordination, degradation, and violence against women, the other sees beauty, fun, pleasure, female power and assertiveness, and fantasy. Freud never asked, "What do men want?" but Katherine MacKinnon asserts, "Pornography provides an answer. Pornography permits men to have whatever they want sexually. It is their ‘truth about sex'." Is this true? Dozens of books have been published on pornography, yet almost none feature the voices of the men who use it. Indeed, most of our ideas about men and pornography are theoretical, and most are entirely derived from women. Watching Sex explores pornography through the eyes of men who use it. The interviews with nearly 150 men—between the ages of 19 and 67, single, married, divorced and widowed, of straight, gay, and bisexual—are telling and provocative accounts of what they think, feel, and do in response to pornography. Their answers confound the now conventional wisdom promulgated by anti-pornography feminists, who would have us believe, in the words of Robin Morgan, "Pornography is the theory; rape the practice." Watching Sex provides a window on the true nature of men's sexuality that will prove of enduring importance.

Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labour (Sexual Politics)

Wendy Chapkis

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Sensitive, provocative and fascinating 5 out of 5 stars.
19 of 22 people found this review helpful.

I LOVED this book! I've been in the sex trade ever since college, and found the book to be absolutely insightful and fascinating. It is NOT a "a suger-coated [sic] way of talking about prostitution", but a very accurate representation of the business--at least for those among us who choose to be empowered rather than exploited. I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone considering entering the sex trade, or to anyone curious about the reality of sex work.

Realism can hurt 5 out of 5 stars.
15 of 18 people found this review helpful.

For anyone who hasn't enjoyed this book, all I can say is that you probably haven't met many of the women whose stories are cited in here. I have, and I find them well represented. Chapkis doesn't drown out their voices the way so many other scholars have. She begins by tracing the debates concerning sex work, which is helpful for people new to the topic. She then develops her own argument (see editor's review) and concludes with a personal story on how she discovered her own sexual pleasure. I found it informative and touching, even though I've been doing similar field work on sex workers for the past four years.

Editorial Review:

Drawing on more than 50 interviews in both the criminalized sex industry of the United States and in the free and open trade in the Netherlands, this volume aims to capture the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labour and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. The analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as a hands-on account of such contemporary commercial sexual practices as an "erotic yoni massage ritual".

Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age

III Frederick Lane

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Good, but not complete 4 out of 5 stars.
6 of 47 people found this review helpful.

Well, here's the scoop. I met Fred twice at Conventions. The first time was immediately after he closed the hardcover version of the book. The second, while he was reseraching for the paperback update. Now, I don't know how to say this without being arrogant, but Fred missed it. You see, I am the Inventor of the Virtual Sex Machine, the worlds first interactive sexual simulation system for use with a computer. When fred was doing his research for each of the books, he missed us the first time, despite the fact that we are very public (virtualsexmachine.com) and have been since early 1996. Had he done even a cursury search, he would have found us. We have been covered by all the major news sources (ABC, NBC, MSNBC, Playboy, Hustler, Gear, and others.)He talks of Entrpreneurs in the Cyberage, not just the adult industry. We are most definately Front and center and were not included. I could have MAYBE understood not being included in the original Hardcover as just missing us. But we met with him twice since then, and there is NO excuse for not even a mention in the update. I bought both books expecting to see something and was very disspointed. As far as I know, we are the ONLY adult company that has Patents pending on new technologies in this industry. A search of any of the normal research areas would have turned this up. We supplied him with full coverage and contact information regarding the product, and he interviewed us twice. You may say it's sour grapes for not being included, but the fact is, we are a company in this industry with the newest and most advanced technology, and it should have been included. Maybe he'll get it right in the next book. To Fred: I'm sorry Fred, but you have really dissapointed me with your research abilities. Despite that, I still have to reccomend the book, because it is well done for the coverage that it does deal with. I just think Fred doesn't quite "get it" beyond a pure dry research approach. The book is a slow read, and is very much technical. Written more like a textbook. (With some of the best and exciting parts missing)

Editorial Review:

Sex sells. Already a ten-billion dollar business-and growing-most sex businesses require relatively low start-up costs and minimal equipment. No wonder retired porn stars, homemakers, college students, and entrepreneurs of every stripe are eager to jump on the smut band wagon. Following the money trail, or in this case, the telecom routes, the author reveals how some big phone companies are cashing in too. Obscene Profits offers a startling and entertaining new look at this very old business, and shows why pornography, in all of its variations--videos, magazines, phone-sex, spy cameras, etc.-- is one of the most profitable and popular new careers to come out of the electronic age.