Download or read book Plunging Pornography written by D. J. Hueneman and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans spend more than two weeks in the restroom every year. Let's put this toilet time to use! Plunging Pornography is the perfect resource for teens and adults living in our porn-saturated culture. This engaging bathroom book tackles the tough topic of pornography from an authentically Catholic perspective. Readers will learn the religious and scientific reasons of WHY & HOW to escape pornography. Parents, teens, and young adults will benefit from this easy-to-read resource. Place this book on the toilet of those with whom you wish to lovingly share the truth about porn. The restroom can be an unsanitary sanctuary. It's time for the porcelain throne to point to the Heavenly Throne. Every Catholic bathroom should have this book! How parents can use this book:Step 1: Parents read the book first.Step 2: Parents place the book in teen's bathroom.Step 3: Parents begin dialogue with teen using the included conversation starters.
Download or read book Integrity Restored Helping Catholic Families Win the Battle Against Pornography Revised and Expanded Edition written by Peter C Kleponis, Ph.D. and published by Emmaus Road Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alarming numbers of men, women, and teens struggle with frequent or habitual pornography use today. Among them are many faithful Catholics desperate for hope and healing. In Integrity Restored: Helping Catholic Families Win the Battle Against Pornography, clinical therapist Dr. Peter Kleponis equips readers to embark on a path of recovery. Drawing heavily from Catholic teaching on human sexuality, Kleponis provides resources and insight for parents, educators, pastors, and all struggling to overcome an addiction to pornography. In this newly updated edition, Kleponis looks at new technologies, apps, and services that pose the biggest threat to Catholics today.
Download or read book Pornified written by Pamela Paul and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Strips porn of its culture-war claptrap . . . Pornified may stand as a Kinsey Report for our time."—San Francisco Chronicle Porn in America is everywhere—not just in cybersex and Playboy but in popular video games, advice columns, and reality television shows, and on the bestseller lists. Even more striking, as porn has become affordable, accessible, and anonymous, it has become increasingly acceptable—and a big part of the personal lives of many men and women. In this controversial and critically acclaimed book, Pamela Paul argues that as porn becomes more pervasive, it is destroying our marriages and families as well as distorting our children's ideas of sex and sexuality. Based on more than one hundred interviews and a nationally representative poll, Pornified exposes how porn has infiltrated our lives, from the wife agonizing over the late-night hours her husband spends on porn Web sites to the parents stunned to learn their twelve-year-old son has seen a hardcore porn film. Pornified is an insightful, shocking, and important investigation into the costs and consequences of pornography for our families and our culture.
Download or read book Violence and the Pornographic Imaginary written by Natalie J. Purcell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No cultural product reveals our collective fascination with sexual violence more candidly than pornography. Popular heterosexual pornographies showcase scenes of intense sexual aggression and cruelty that are gendered in repetitive, patterned configurations—configurations that are designedto arouse. Purcell uses comparative critical readings of popular U.S. pornographies to illuminate the changing psychosocial foundations of sexually aggressive fantasies. By examining how depictions of violence in pornography have changed over the past forty years, she investigates the evolving desires and anxieties of the genre’s growing U.S. audience. Adopting a thick descriptive approach, she moves beyond the mere observation and recording of instances of sexism and violence, elucidating the changing aesthetics, themes, and conventions of depicted sexual aggression and showing how they have emerged in specific socio-historical contexts. Finally, she draws from a range of industry publications and fan forums to examine the fabric and function of misogyny and violence in people’s fantasies and everyday lives.
Download or read book Perspectives on Pornography written by Clive Bloom and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-11-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with moral, political and sexual tensions, this volume provides a forum for male/female dialogue concerning the history, dissemination and consequences of pornographic representaion in film and literature, aiming to challenge established views and inspire further exploration and debate.
Download or read book Women Sex and the Law written by Rosemarie Tong and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1984 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist scholars have long been concerned with how women and sexuality are perceived and treated by the American legal system. Feminists have put forth a variety of arguments seeking the causes and solutions to the class-based and sex-biased characteristics of the legal system that contribute to the victimization of women in contemporary society. No consensus within the women's movement has been achieved on a number of legal issues, such as pornography or prostitution, since approaches are often divided by political, economic, moral, or sexual ideology.Women, Sex, and the Law is a comprehensive survey and analysis of the legal and sexual issues important to women. Rosemarie Tong introduces the reader to the different feminist and legal perspectives on the causes and solutions for the problems of pornography, sexual harassment, prostitution, rape, and woman-battering. Tong clearly and concisely details and assesses the legal theory and practice for each issue, describs and critiques the various feminist debates surrounding these concerns, and offers her own thoughtful proposals for ameliorating the discriminatory tendencies and improving the effectiveness of our present legal system.
Download or read book Psycho Sexual written by David Greven and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Alfred Hitchcock's themes of heterosexual male ambivalence and homoeroticism influence some of the films of directors Brian De Palma, Martin Scorcese and William Friedkin.
Download or read book Coming Out Like a Porn Star written by Jiz Lee and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For porn stars, “coming out” is a process that never ends. To the uninitiated, the idea of a career in the adult film industry may come with stigma that porn performers and sex workers have long fought to shake off. For many, that fight begins with one awkward conversation. When Coming Out Like a Porn Star was first published in 2015, it garnered cult status as an anthology of candidly intimate essays by diverse adult industry professionals and icons, relating the pain, pride, and surprises that accompanied their experiences coming out about their work. This updated edition includes new essays that explore issues transforming the modern porn field: deepfakes, AI, and OnlyFans; the inequity and fetishization faced by Black, Muslim, queer, disabled, and other marginalized performers; and the everyday, ever-evolving legal injustices compromising sex workers’ rights to live, earn, and bank. Edited by veteran industry professional Jiz Lee, and featuring a new foreword by Samantha Cole, the second edition of Coming Out Like a Porn Star continues to celebrate the rich and varied voices of the adult industry, offering a panoramic view of the world of sex work that has been described in recent years by Melissa Febos, Margo Steines, Charlotte Shane, and Michelle Tea. Contributors include Joanna Angel, Siri Dahl, Sinnamon Love, Andre Shakti, Nikki Silver, Jessica Stoya, Kitty Stryker, Bella Vendetta, Denali Winter, and more.
Download or read book Pornography Sex and Feminism written by Alan Soble and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unabashed defense of pornography from a utilitarian-hedonist perspective, philosopher Alan Soble strongly rebuts both feminist and conservative critics. Soble demonstrates that neither conservative nor feminist critics of pornography show much acquaintance with the genre they criticize. This suggests that purely political motives underlie their critiques instead of reasoned, objective arguments based on thorough empirical research.Soble also faults critics of pornography for their failure of empathy: they refuse to see pornographic images from the various perspectives of their viewers. In approaching these images literally, detractors promulgate the worst possible interpretation of pornography. Further, they do not do justice to the social and psychological research about pornography and its purported harms. Conservatives and feminists manufacture their case against pornography and its consumers based on oversimplified interpretations of the images and a poor understanding of scientific studies.This sardonic and well-reasoned critique of feminist and conservative moral outrage over pornography is sure to be controversial.
Download or read book Pop Porn written by Ann C. Hall and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeks to examine the phenomenon of porn in some of its manifestations. This book focuses on the polarity of basic pro and con views on this topic. It shows that pornographic content is subtly and profoundly embedded in our cultural fabric. It raises questions beyond what's right and what's wrong.
Download or read book Autour de l extr me litt raire written by Alastair Hemmens and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extreme is an essential aspect of contemporary experience. Thrill-seekers spend the weekend in the search of the adrenaline rush of “extreme sports”. In the political arena, the world has begun to rediscover the split between the “extreme” left and the “extreme” right. Through 24-hour rolling news, images of violence, torture and war are televised unremittingly into the living room; while the Internet places hardcore pornography, snuff film and cannibalism within easy reach of anyone with a personal computer or a smartphone. The “extreme” has even become a quality companies seek to associate with the most banal of commodities such as ice cream and hair gel. These different manifestations of extremity suggest a contradictory, even paradoxical, relationship with the “extreme”. The contributors to this book explore how writing in French, from the Middle Ages to the present day, has interrogated extremity. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that the quality of the extreme can be applied to a great number of texts for different reasons and from myriad perspectives. Moreover, the extreme is revealed as a quality both distinct from, and in tension with, the crossing of boundaries associated with transgression. It is a movement towards and away from a centre of radiation that escapes cultural norms without necessarily reinforcing them. This sensation of rushing and wandering outside the boundaries of what is considered safe and normal provides the extreme with its adrenaline-charged response of excitement or horror. The analyses contained in this volume consider a number of manifestations of the “extrême littéraire”. The ambiguities of gender in medieval romance are explored in the context of the Arthurian court. The 19th century is examined through the prose poems of Baudelaire and the littérature sauvage of the Zutistes. The difficulties of writing the trauma of war and genocide in the 20th century are discussed through the work of Jorges Semprún and Agota Kristof. The contemporary extreme in French literature is examined in the autofiction of Christine Angot, the work of Annie Ernaux and Catherine Millet, the controversial novels of Michel Houellebecq, and the worldwide influence of the Marquis de Sade on writing today. Whilst the “extrême littéraire” may have a wide variety of expressions in French literature, it is always outside, beyond and far from the centre of our everyday experience. It shocks us, excites us and horrifies us, often all at once. This book seeks to provide an insight into how and why the extreme has fascinated, and continues to fascinate, the French literary imagination.
Download or read book Feminism Unmodified written by Catharine A. MacKinnon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. These discourses, originally delivered as speeches, have been brilliantly woven into a book that retains all the spontaneity and accessibility of a live presentation. Through these engaged works on issues such as rape, abortion, athletics, sexual harassment, and pornography, MacKinnon seeks feminism on its own terms, unconstrained by the limits of prior traditions. She argues that viewing gender as a matter of sameness and difference--as virtually all existing theory and law have done--covers up the reality of gender, which is a system of social hierarchy, an imposed inequality of power"--Back cover.
Download or read book Carnal Resonance written by Susanna Paasonen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the modalities, affective intensities, and disturbing qualities of online pornography. Digital production tools and online networks have dramatically increased the general visibility, accessibility, and diversity of pornography. Porn can be accessed for free, anonymously, and in a seemingly endless range of niches, styles, and formats. In Carnal Resonance, Susanna Paasonen moves beyond the usual debates over the legal, political, and moral aspects of pornography to address online porn in a media historical framework, investigating its modalities, its affect, and its visceral and disturbing qualities. Countering theorizations of pornography as emotionless, affectless, detached, and cold, Paasonen addresses experiences of porn largely through the notion of affect as gut reactions, intensities of experience, bodily sensations, resonances, and ambiguous feelings. She links these investigations to considerations of methodology (ways of theorizing and analyzing online porn and affect), questions of materiality (bodies, technologies, and inscriptions), and the evolution of online pornography. Paasonen dicusses the development of online porn, focusing on the figure of the porn consumer, and considers user-generated content and amateur porn. She maps out the modality of online porn as hyperbolic, excessive, stylized, and repetitive, arguing that literal readings of the genre misunderstand its dynamics and appeal. And she analyzes viral videos and extreme and shock pornogaphy, arguing for the centrality of disgust and shame in the affective dynamics of porn. Paasonen's analysis makes clear the crucial role of media technologies—digital production tools and networked communications in particular—in the forms that porn takes, the resonances it stirs, and the experiences it makes possible.
Download or read book Bottom Feeders written by John Hubner and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prize-winning author John Hubner tells the inside story of the idealistic yet notorious entrepreneurs who turned pornography into mainstream entertainment, riding the '60s counterculture wave to fantastic success and, ultimately, to tragedy.
Download or read book An Unseemly Man written by Larry Flynt and published by Phoenix Books. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This century's most ardent advocate of the First Amendment, controversial and outspoken, hated and adored, the infamous Larry Flynt's life needs no exaggeration to make it one of the most interesting stories of our time. The real events of Flynt's life are captured here for the very first time, from his roots in Appalachia to his troubles in Beverly Hills. Updated to include Flynt's role in the recent "Washington Madam" brouhaha.
Download or read book Pornistan written by Aditya Gautam and published by Readomania. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know what porn does to you? We all know what it does to our body, but what about our mind? Internet porn: endless variety of hardcore, sexual videos streaming at the click of a button. We have all seen it. Our intimate partners have seen it. Most kids by the time they are eleven have seen it too. Why do we humans watch porn in the first place? What role is porn playing in the Indian sexual revolution? Is porn spicing up or ruining our relationships? Should parents let their kids watch porn? Can watching porn make us promiscuous or affect a man's libido? Should we ban porn? Is internet porn hindering or facilitating the sexual liberation of Indian women? Pornistan answers these and tells you everything else you absolutely must know in today's porn-induced sexual culture. Interviews with India's leading experts, latest studies and experiments from around the world, statements from world famous porn-stars, scientists and doctors, some incredibly relatable short stories and some amazing illustrations Pornistan will entertain you, shock you, inform you and leave you with a deeper understanding of how human sexuality works. Pornsitan the sex education you didn't receive at school.
Download or read book Sadomasochism Popular Culture and Revolt written by Tom Pollard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sadomasochism, Popular Culture and Revolt: A Pornography of Violence explores powerful connections between violent pornography and current gender wars, generational conflicts, political struggles, and racial and ethnic unrest. Long before these conflicts dominated headlines worldwide, they become embedded and contextualized in popular culture. Tracing the history of today’s popular porn genres, including torture porn, revenge porn, war porn, and fascist porn, Tom Pollard reveals a "sadomasochistic trope" of fictional and real sexual violence and sexual justice that had largely remained hidden and suppressed. Today it has exploded into public awareness by mass movements like #MeToo demanding justice for sexual assault victims. This movement joins other recent social movements, including Black Lives Matter and advocates of safety from gun violence, which, along with #MeToo, constitute a "revolt of submissives" no longer willing to endure unwanted violence. This thoughtful examination of the history and content of violent pornography reveals portentous patterns and developing trends. By examining pornography’s violent content, Pollard forces us to confront wider social and cultural violence. Sadomasochism, Popular Culture and Revolt will be of great interest to scholars of gay and lesbian studies and queer studies, while being a vital text for undergraduate and graduate instructors of social movement studies in sociology, political science, American Studies, and history.
