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What is pornography? Can anything be done about it? should anything be done about it?
The availability of sexually explicit images, products, and services in cyberspace has propelled the pornography debate into new and uncharted territory. Members of Congress and anti-porn activists are lobbying just as hard today against "cyberporn" as they once did against "dirty" magazines. Robert Mapplethorpe's photography, and the rap lyrics of the group 2 Live Crew.
While drawing the battle lines between those who argue in favor of censorship and those who defend free speech, this revised edition of Pornography: Private Right or Public Menace? takes an in-depth look at pornography and the Internet, and recent attempts to regulate the booming computer sex business. In addition to the Supreme Court decision in Revo v. ACLU and works examining the Communications Decency Act, this collection contains essays on defining pornography and distinguishing it from erotica and artistic expression; investigating evidence concerning the social and psychological effects of pornography: sexism: and women's rights.
Included are selections by Robert Bork, Harry Brod, William F. Buckley Jr., Robert Cannon, F.M. Christensen, Michael Cromartie, Barbara Dority, Andrea Dworkin, Ronald Dworkin, Sen. Jim Exon, Theodore Gracyk, Judith Hill, Peter Johnson, Tim LaHaye, Sen. Pat Leahy, William Linsley, Helen Longino, Rita Manning, Thomas Parker, Jeffrey Rosen, Alan Soble, Gloria Steinem, Mary Jo Weaver and George F. Will.
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Robert M. Baird & Stuart E. Rosenbaum, Editors. Pornography: Private Right or Public Menace? Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1998. 286pp.
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Let's say you read Fifty Shades of Grey, or anoher erotic, provocative novel like Story of O. You enjoyed these fictional accounts of dominance nd submission, power and lust, pleasure and pain, hot sex and incredible orgasms. Let's say you enjoyed them a lot. Where do you go from there? Tristan Taormino lays out the best ways to make your fantasies into reality in 50 Shades of Kink, her newest primer to erotic exploration. It's both the perfect beginner's guide and a wonderful refresher course. Whether you want to get up close and personal with blindfolds, crops and paddles or are just looking for some inspiration to keep things fresh in the bedroom, 50 Shades of Kink is your playbook.
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Tristan Taormino. 50 Shades of Kink: An Inroduction to BDSM, [Berkeley, CA]: Cleis Press, 2014. xix+141pp.
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The English seem to have become much less prudish in the past ten years.
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Defending Pornography offers a unique perspective on the pre-censorship crusade waged in recent years by a highly influential alliance of the American feminist movement and leading conservatives. As one of America's most visible and articule advocates of both feminism and free speech, and president of the American Civil Liberties Union, Nadine Strossen eloquently argues that to view sexuality and sexually oriented expression as inherently dangerous does profound damage to human rights in general, and to women's right in particular.
In Strossen's eyes women do not have to choose between safety and 'our freedoms to read, think, speak, sing, write, paint, dance, dream, photograph, film, and fantasize as we wish' - but as she makes devastatingly clear, censorship continues to be used as a tool to repress information vital to female equality, health and reproductive autonomy.
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Nadine Strossen. Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and The Fight for Women's Rights, London: Abacus, 1996. 320pp., 10 black-and-white illus.
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THE NEW FEMALE SEXUALITY is the first book to disclose detailed findings (including extensive verbatim responses) based on objective, scientific research relating to the sexual attitudes, practices, experiences, desires, etc., of female social nudists and "potential" nudists (including a number of lesbians).
ISBN-10: 0-15-142173-0
Writers: Anna K. and Robert T. Francoeur
Title: Hot &: Cool Sex
Subtitle: Cultures in Conflict
Introduction: Robert H. Rimmer
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York, London
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Year of Publication: 1974
Format: 145x220mm
Pages: xv+220
Illustrations: one black and white picture of the writers on the back flap by George A. Francoeur
Binding: cloth spine and boards in colour dust jacket designed by Linda Kosarin
Weight: 473gr.
Original Price: USD 7.95
Entry No.: 2013034
Entry Date: 15th October 2013
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Anna and Robert Francoeur examine here within a religious and historical context, the changing sexual and marriage patterns in American society. Birth control, women's liberation, and increased mobility and leisure are important factors in the inevitable and rapid process of change, “but the eye of the storm,” say the Francoeurs, “is a new way in which men and women relate to one another as sexual persons.”
Employing Marshall McLuhan's terminology, the Francoeurs analyze the shift from the constraints and artificiality of “hot” sex to the spontaneous enjoyment of “cool” sex. Organizationally, this means replacing the traditional “closed” marriage with the flexible “open” marriage. In terms of personal growth, it means equal communication in an environment of diffused sensuality and multilateral relations between men and women.
The time for drastic change in sexual relations is ripe, the Francoeurs believe. But the process is one of delicate balance. “If we use sex as a means to an end, it is cut off from the real essence of our lives,” but “when sex is integrated into our personality… human sexuality becomes communicative, contemplative, polymorphic, and aesthetic.”
A thoroughly documented and illustrated explanation of the modernday social phenomena, Mate-Swapping and Orgies
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Now available in a new paperback edition, this survey is different in both breadth and scope from all other reports on sexuality in the United States. It covers every topic imaginable, from a multicultural point of view, in order to reflect fully the complex society in which we live: the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of our sexual lives.
Robert T Francoeur, Patricia Koch and David Weis, Editors. Sexuality in America: Understanding our Sexual Values and Behavior, London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, hardcover.1997. 360pp.
