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Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
At any given moment, 1.7 million users world-wide are streaming pornography. It is estimated that one-third of all Internet content is pornographic and that 1 in 4 Internet searches are porn-related. However, few media programs investigate pornography's impact beyond the simplistic cause-and-effect question of whether it is linked to sexual assault or sex addiction. Dr. Chyng Sun, the director of The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, and...
2) Variety
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The sexually charged tale of a woman's journey of self-discovery, Variety is a fascinating film that challenges familiar stereotypes surrounding feminism and pornography. Christine (Sandy McLeod) takes a job selling tickets at a porno theater near Times Square. Instead of distancing herself from the dark and erotic nature of this milieu, Christine develops an obsession that begins to consume her life. Few films deal honestly with a female sexual point-of-view,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Pornography has moved from the margins of society into the very mainstream of American culture. From Internet pornography to MTV, sexualized images of idealized women and men jump off the screen and into our lives, in the process shaping our gender identities, our body image, and our most intimate relationships. In this multimedia presentation based on her acclaimed book, leading anti-porn feminist and scholar Gail Dines argues that the dominant images...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has emerged as one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries, assuming an unprecedented role in the mainstream of our popular culture at the same time that its content has become more extreme and harsh, more overtly sexist and racist. This eye-opening and disturbing film tackles the complexity behind this seeming paradox, placing the voices of critics, producers, and...
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Documents the prevalence of child pornography on the Internet, revealing how the industry thrives and makes large profits while being effectively hidden by new technologies, in an account that also traces law enforcement efforts to halt the practice.
6) Pornified: how the culture of pornography is changing our lives, our relationships, and our families
Author
Publisher
Times
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Explores the influence of pornography on virtually every aspect of modern society, examining its pervasive impact on the institution of marriage, family life, intimacy, and children's views on sex.
Author
Series
William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 17
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 17
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 17
Language
English
Description
When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices.
8) Camgirl
Author
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the “former sex worker taking Hollywood by storm” (The Daily Beast), comes a candid and hilarious memoir of sex work, shame, and self-discovery set in the colorful world of live-streaming camgirls." --
Author
Series
Margot Mertz volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For the right price, high school junior Margot Mertz will go to the ends of the internet to remove your nip-slip, dick pic, or embarrassing DM. At least that's what it says on her business card. Margot founded a now notorious company that helps students, teachers, even a local weatherman, discreetly clean up their digital shame. And since her parents lost her college fund, Margot is happy to work for anyone ... if they can pay, she can clean. But...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Comstock, special agent to the U.S. Post Office, was one of the most important men in the lives of nineteenth-century women. The Comstock law, passed in 1873, penalized the mailing of contraception and obscenity with long sentences and steep fines. Between 1873 and Comstock's death in 1915, eight women were charged with violating state and federal Comstock laws. They took on the fearsome censor in explicit, personal writing, seeking to redefine...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Addresses several types of cyber crimes, ranging from child pornography and solicitation to cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and sexting, giving parents the necessary information they need to protect their children in cyberspace. This book builds on the historical efforts to reduce child abuse in the United States and looks at the limitations of these efforts when attempting to address child abuse in cyberspace. By identifying these different types of...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"After inheriting 400 novels of pornography written by his father in the 1970s and '80s, critically acclaimed author Chris Offutt sets out to make sense of a complicated father-son relationship in this carefully observed, beautifully written memoir"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The powder keg that is porn culture has exploded in the lives of North American children. From thongs and padded bras for 9-year-old girls to "sexting," 24-7 internet porn, and unfiltered social media, kids today are bombarded with commercial sexual appeals like never before. In this astonishing new documentary, award-winning documentary filmmaker Maureen Palmer (Leaving Bountiful, How to Divorce and Not Wreck the Kids) explores what this radical...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In November 2000 DeRogatis, a Chicago journalist and music critic, received an anonymous fax that alleged R. Kelly had a problem with 'young girls.' DeRogatis thought breaking the story would have an impact. Instead, Kelly's career flourished. After eighteen years of tenacious journalism, he tells the story of Kelly's career, his own investigations, and brings the story up to the moment when things finally seem to have changed. The result is a darkly...
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