At home with pornography
Subtitle: women, sex, and everyday life
By: Jane Juffer.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Pornography -- Social aspects; Women and erotica; Women -- Sexual behavior; Women consumers
Description: Juffer demonstrates how women's consumption of erotica and porn for their own pleasure can be empowering while simultaneously reinforcing conservative ideals. She shows, for instance, how the Victoria's Secret catalog functions as a kind of pornography whose popularity is enhanced by both its reliance on Victorian themes of secrecy and privacy and by its appeals to the pleasures of modern career women.

In her pursuit to understand what women like and how they get it, Juffer delves into adult cable channels, erotic literary anthologies, sex therapy guides, cyberporn, masturbation, and sex toys, showing the degrees to which these materials have been domesticated for home consumption.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : from the profane to the mundane; title: Home sweet pornographic home? : governmental discourse and women's paths to pornography; title: The mainstreaming of masturbation? : making domestic space for women's orgasms; title: Aesthetics and access; title: The new Victorians : lingerie in the private sphere; title: Behind and beyond the bedroom doors : from John Gray to Candida Royalle; title: Eroticizing the television; title: Conclusion : revisiting transgression.