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Porn An Oral History
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Description: How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for understanding she spent a year initiating intimate conversations with nineteen acquaintances of a range of ages genders and sexualities about everything and anything related to porn: watching habits emotions and feelings of guilt embarrassment disgust and shame fantasy and desire. Soon unfolding before her was exactly the book that she had been longing to encounter not a traditional history but the raw honest truth about what we aren t saying. A landmark work of oral history written in the spirit of Nell Dunn Porn is a thrilling thought - provoking revelatory revealing joyfully informative and informal exploration of a subject that has always retained an element of the taboo.
Title: Porn An Oral History
Author(s): Barton Polly
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Barcode: 9781804270400
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 4/2/2024
Category: Ethical Issues: Pornography & Obscenity
Description: How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for understanding she spent a year initiating intimate conversations with nineteen acquaintances of a range of ages genders and sexualities about everything and anything related to porn: watching habits emotions and feelings of guilt embarrassment disgust and shame fantasy and desire. Soon unfolding before her was exactly the book that she had been longing to encounter not a traditional history but the raw honest truth about what we aren t saying. A landmark work of oral history written in the spirit of Nell Dunn Porn is a thrilling thought - provoking revelatory revealing joyfully informative and informal exploration of a subject that has always retained an element of the taboo.
Title: Porn An Oral History
Author(s): Barton Polly
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Barcode: 9781804270400
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 4/2/2024
Category: Ethical Issues: Pornography & Obscenity