For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at pornography in all its facets - historical, religious, and cultural.
WELCOME TO THE AMERICA WE DON'T USUALLY TALK ABOUT, a place where that nice couple down the street could be saddling up for "pony play," making and selling their own porn DVDs, or hosting other couples for a little flogging.
An eminent British critic explores the conception of literary obscenity, tracing his subject from the earliest times, with special reference to recent legislation and prosecutions in the United States and England.
One of the most daring and controversial experiments in the movement toward open sexuality, Sandstone —a retreat in the California mountains— has long been the subject of such conjecture and speculation.
The first edition of Purity in Print documented book censorship in America from the 1870s to the 1930s, embedding it within the larger social and cultural history of the time.