Monday, 13 December 2010
Friday, 10 December 2010
COMING ATTRACTIONS
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-05654-9
Writers: Robert J. Stoller and Ira. S. Levine
Title: Coming Attractions
Subtitle: The Making of an X-Rated Video
Language: English
Place of Publication: New Haven and London
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year of Publication: 1993
Format: 157x240mm
Pages: ix+246; References, 241; Index,243
Jacket Photograph: Richard McNeace
Binding: Boards in duotone dust jacket
Weight: 543gr.
Entry No.: 2010034
Entry Date: 10th December 2010
Writers: Robert J. Stoller and Ira. S. Levine
Title: Coming Attractions
Subtitle: The Making of an X-Rated Video
Language: English
Place of Publication: New Haven and London
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year of Publication: 1993
Format: 157x240mm
Pages: ix+246; References, 241; Index,243
Jacket Photograph: Richard McNeace
Binding: Boards in duotone dust jacket
Weight: 543gr.
Entry No.: 2010034
Entry Date: 10th December 2010
BOOK DESCRIPTION
What do porn films tell us about our own erotic impulses? What can we learn about our culture’s sexual attitudes, fears, and fantasies from the ways that porn films are designed and produced? In this book, Dr. Robert J. Stoller, one of the world’s leading experts on human sexual behavior, joins with I. S. Levine, a professional writer with logn experience in X-rated video making, to examine the ideas and psychological makeup of the participants in an adult heterosexual X-rate video, Stairway to Paradise. Their interviews with performers, writers, directors, producers, and technicians provide extraordinary insights into the technical aspects of this type of video, the motivations and backgrounds of the people involved, and the porn industry’s view of the video’s intended audience.
Stoller, Levine, and the porn filmmakers have wide-ranging discussions about the aesthetics, ethics, and etiquette of the porn industry; the hostility that Dr. Stoller claimed underlies all erotic excitement; the liberating –and educational –function of porn in a puritanical culture; the misconceptions of antiporn crusaders; the impact of AIDS on the participants; and the future of the porn film industry. The authors hope that if we understand how and why a pornographic work is created, we will be better able to understand the implications oft the legal and moral issues it raises.
Stoller, Levine, and the porn filmmakers have wide-ranging discussions about the aesthetics, ethics, and etiquette of the porn industry; the hostility that Dr. Stoller claimed underlies all erotic excitement; the liberating –and educational –function of porn in a puritanical culture; the misconceptions of antiporn crusaders; the impact of AIDS on the participants; and the future of the porn film industry. The authors hope that if we understand how and why a pornographic work is created, we will be better able to understand the implications oft the legal and moral issues it raises.
PORNIFIED
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7745-2
Writer: Pamela Paul
Title: Pornified
Subtitle: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: Times Books / Henry Holt and Company
Year of Publication: 2005
Format: 160x242mm
Pages: xi+304; Notes, 277; Index,293
Binding: Boards in colour dust jacket designed by Lisa Fyfe
Weight: 599gr.
Entry No.: 2010035
Entry Date: 10th December 2010
Writer: Pamela Paul
Title: Pornified
Subtitle: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: Times Books / Henry Holt and Company
Year of Publication: 2005
Format: 160x242mm
Pages: xi+304; Notes, 277; Index,293
Binding: Boards in colour dust jacket designed by Lisa Fyfe
Weight: 599gr.
Entry No.: 2010035
Entry Date: 10th December 2010
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Pornography, once the taboo vice that no one dared mention, has become part of our daily lives –affordable , accessible, anonymous, and, increasingly, acceptable. The all-pornography, all-the-time mentality is everywhere –on the covers of mainstream men’s magazines; in the promotion of music, movie, and television celebrities; and in the advice columns of women’s magazines. The Internet is bursting with hardcore pornography, just a mouse-click away; cable and pay-per-view channel teem with porn; and “adult superstores” reel in customers off the interstate. The days of Playboy magazine wrapped in plain brown paper seem quaint.
Most striking, pornography has become a big part of the personal lives of many Americans. In Pornified, Pamela Paul argues that as porn has become more pervasive it has changed our marriages and families as well as our children’s understanding of sex and sexuality. She presents eye-opening portraits of Americans in the age of porn:
*Rob, who insists that his girlfriend look and behave, in bed and out, like a porn star
* Charlie, who spends hours cruising porn sites and setting up meetings with women and couples he befriends in sex chat rooms, while telling his wife that he’s just working late on the computer.
* Jonah, a fan of violent hardcore porn, who introduces tamer porn to his fiancée in an effort to revive their troubled sex life
* Abby, who discovers her husband’s hidden box of diskettes of child porn images downloaded from the Internet
* Preteen girls who start their own pornography Web sites
* Teenage boys, mimicking porn, who videotape themselves having sex with an apparently unconscious girl
Drawing on the results of more than a hundred interviews and an exclusive nationwide poll, Paul exposes how porn has infiltrated and unsettled our lives. We see the costs and consequences of pornography, as intimacy is replaced by fantasy, distrust, dissatisfaction, and emotional isolation. Pornified is an insightful, shocking, and indispensable investigation.
Most striking, pornography has become a big part of the personal lives of many Americans. In Pornified, Pamela Paul argues that as porn has become more pervasive it has changed our marriages and families as well as our children’s understanding of sex and sexuality. She presents eye-opening portraits of Americans in the age of porn:
*Rob, who insists that his girlfriend look and behave, in bed and out, like a porn star
* Charlie, who spends hours cruising porn sites and setting up meetings with women and couples he befriends in sex chat rooms, while telling his wife that he’s just working late on the computer.
* Jonah, a fan of violent hardcore porn, who introduces tamer porn to his fiancée in an effort to revive their troubled sex life
* Abby, who discovers her husband’s hidden box of diskettes of child porn images downloaded from the Internet
* Preteen girls who start their own pornography Web sites
* Teenage boys, mimicking porn, who videotape themselves having sex with an apparently unconscious girl
Drawing on the results of more than a hundred interviews and an exclusive nationwide poll, Paul exposes how porn has infiltrated and unsettled our lives. We see the costs and consequences of pornography, as intimacy is replaced by fantasy, distrust, dissatisfaction, and emotional isolation. Pornified is an insightful, shocking, and indispensable investigation.
Thursday, 9 December 2010
THE JANUS REPORT ON SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-52540-0
Writers: Samuel S. Janus and Cynthia L. Janus
Title: The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York Ÿ Chichester Ÿ Brisbane ŸToronto Ÿ Singapore
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year of Publication: 1993
Format: 150x240mm
Pages: xiii+430 printed on acid-free paper; Notes, 417; Index,423
Illustrations: 270+ tables, indexes and tabulated results of questionnaire
Binding: Boards in colour dust jacket
Weight: 815gr.
Entry No.: 2010031
Entry Date: 9th December 2010
Writers: Samuel S. Janus and Cynthia L. Janus
Title: The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York Ÿ Chichester Ÿ Brisbane ŸToronto Ÿ Singapore
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year of Publication: 1993
Format: 150x240mm
Pages: xiii+430 printed on acid-free paper; Notes, 417; Index,423
Illustrations: 270+ tables, indexes and tabulated results of questionnaire
Binding: Boards in colour dust jacket
Weight: 815gr.
Entry No.: 2010031
Entry Date: 9th December 2010
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Our society in the opinion of many experts, has gone through more social and sexual change in the past twenty years than in the prior two centuries. Yet, amazingly, until The Janus Report, there has been no scientific study of sexuality since Masters & Johnson’s influential report of the 1960s, and no large-scale survey since the Kinsey reports forty years ago.
Based on a nationwide survey of adult Americans of every political and religious persuasion, from ages eighteen to eighty and beyond, and from every income bracket and every region of the United States, The Janus Report surpasses all previous studies of American sexuality in both its scope and breadth. Frank, penetrating, and at times surprising in its findings, the Report cuts through platitudes and media hype to delve deeply into the American sexual psycho.
Presenting its copious statistical findings in more than 270 tables, along with the observations of a panel of consulting experts, and numerous candid accounts by participants recounting their personal experiences, The Janus Report details for the first time the enormous changes in sexual attitudes and practices that have occurred in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Janus Report also sheds new light on a number of today’s most important social and political issues including love, marriage, divorce, parenthood, and abortion –offering revelations that are bound to make a lasting impression on the general public and influence the thinking of national policymakers and social scientists for years to come.
Based on a nationwide survey of adult Americans of every political and religious persuasion, from ages eighteen to eighty and beyond, and from every income bracket and every region of the United States, The Janus Report surpasses all previous studies of American sexuality in both its scope and breadth. Frank, penetrating, and at times surprising in its findings, the Report cuts through platitudes and media hype to delve deeply into the American sexual psycho.
Presenting its copious statistical findings in more than 270 tables, along with the observations of a panel of consulting experts, and numerous candid accounts by participants recounting their personal experiences, The Janus Report details for the first time the enormous changes in sexual attitudes and practices that have occurred in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Janus Report also sheds new light on a number of today’s most important social and political issues including love, marriage, divorce, parenthood, and abortion –offering revelations that are bound to make a lasting impression on the general public and influence the thinking of national policymakers and social scientists for years to come.
PORN
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-05092-9
Writer: Robert J. Stoller
Title: Porn
Subtitle: Myths for the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Place of Publication: New Haven and London
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year of Publication: 1991
Format: 152x244mm
Pages: ix+228; references, 227
Jacket Photographs: Richard McNeace
Binding: Boards in colour dust jacket
Weight: 541gr.
Price: N/A
Entry No.: 2010030
Entry Date: 9th December 2010
Writer: Robert J. Stoller
Title: Porn
Subtitle: Myths for the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Place of Publication: New Haven and London
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year of Publication: 1991
Format: 152x244mm
Pages: ix+228; references, 227
Jacket Photographs: Richard McNeace
Binding: Boards in colour dust jacket
Weight: 541gr.
Price: N/A
Entry No.: 2010030
Entry Date: 9th December 2010
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Bill, Merlin, Happy, and Kay are among the porn-film performers who tell their stories to Dr. Robert J. Stoller in this psychodynamic enthnography of adult heterosexual pornography. Their engrossing accounts reveal in rich detail not only the inner workings of “the industry” and the fantasies and motivations of its participants but also the relation between this most designated of occupations and “normal” human erotic behavior and attitudes.
Consistently nonjudgmental about the material he presents, Dr. Stoller nevertheless draws provocative conclusions about porn, its practitioners, and its effects on society. Everyone at work on a porn production, he says, uses it as a vehicle for unloading his or her rage against something – mores, institutions, laws, parents, females, or males. According to Dr. Stoller, pornography does not exist only to degrade women, there is no reliable evidence that it increases the frequency of rape, and (with the exception of child porn) it does little harm. Pornography, says Dr. Stoller, seems more the result of our changing society than a cause of change; it reflects, more than influences, our values and mores.
Consistently nonjudgmental about the material he presents, Dr. Stoller nevertheless draws provocative conclusions about porn, its practitioners, and its effects on society. Everyone at work on a porn production, he says, uses it as a vehicle for unloading his or her rage against something – mores, institutions, laws, parents, females, or males. According to Dr. Stoller, pornography does not exist only to degrade women, there is no reliable evidence that it increases the frequency of rape, and (with the exception of child porn) it does little harm. Pornography, says Dr. Stoller, seems more the result of our changing society than a cause of change; it reflects, more than influences, our values and mores.
SEX INCORPORATED
Writer: Hans F. Hofmann
Title: Sex Incorporated
Subtitle: A Positive View of the Sexual Revolution
Language: English
Place of Publication: Boston
Publisher: Beacon Press
Year of Publication: 1967
Format: 134x210mm
Pages: 129
Illustrations: 20 single colour plates and pictures
Binding: Half cloth without dust jacket
Weight: 313gr.
Entry No.: 2010029
Entry Date: 9th December 2010
BOOK DESCRIPTION
A humanistic view by a former theologian.
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