The porning of America
Subtitle: the rise of porn culture, what it means, and where we go from here
By: Carmine Sarracino and Kevin M. Scott.
Contributors: Scott, Kevin M., 1966-
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780807061534
Subjects: Pornography in popular culture -- United States; Pornography -- Social aspects -- United States; Sex in popular culture -- United States
Description: "In tracing porn's transformation - from the Civil War to the golden age of comic books in the 1940s and 1950s to the adult film industry's golden decade of the 1970s and up to today - the authors illustrate that what began in the dark alleys of American life has now emerged as an unapologetic multibillion-dollar industry."--Inside jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Normalizing the marginal; title: A nation of porn stars; title: Popping Rosie's rivets : porn in the good old days; title: Porn exemplars : advancing the front lines of porn; title: Would you like porn with that burger?; title: The nexus of porn and violence : Abu Ghraib and beyond; title: Women and porn; title: Where we go from here.