The world's #1 porn star strips down about life, love, and everything in between. Tera Patrick wasn't always Tera Patrick. Once upon a time she was a gangly, teenaged bookworm named Linda Ann Hopkins, obsessed with serial killers and Marilyn Monroe and determined to make men all over the world one day desire her. And she succeeded: Today she sits atop the porn world and runs her own multimillion-dollar empire. Sinner Takes All is a sexy and deeply personal memoir in which Tera bares all...
A Steampunk's Guide to Sex (Steampunk's Guides, #2)
by Professor Calamity, Alan Moore, Margaret Killjoy, Miriam Roč Ek, and Luna Celeste
The Ethics of Vulnerability (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory)
by Erinn Gilson
As concerns about violence, war, terrorism, sexuality, and embodiment have garnered attention in philosophy, the concept of vulnerability has become a shared reference point in these discussions. As a fundamental part of the human condition, vulnerability has significant ethical import: how one responds to vulnerability matters, whom one conceives as vulnerable and which criteria are used to make such demarcations matters, how one deals with one's own vulnerability matters, and how one understan...
The Invention of Pornography, 1500-1800 - Origins of Modernity 1500-1800
by Lynn Hunt
A collection of ten essays tracing the history and various uses of pornography in early modern Europe. In America today the intense and controversial debate over the censorship of pornography continues to call into question the values of a modern, democratic culture. This ground-breaking collection of ten critical essays traces the history and various uses of pornography in early modern Europe, offering the historical perspective crucial to understanding current issues of artistic censorship....
Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future
by Ben Shapiro
Pornography: The force for change that has been written out of the history of world culture. From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the cutting edge in adopting and exploiting new developments in mass communication. And in so doing, it has helped to promote and propel those developments in ways that are rarely acknowledged. Without pornography, the internet would not have grown so quickly. The e-commerce payment systems that are now commonplace would b...
The issue of public morality, so often at the center of heated debates about pornography, narcotics, public indecency, violent entertainment, "family values," et cetera, is at once a continuing reality and a persistent dilemma in our liberal society. With Public Morality and Liberal Society, Harry M. Clor makes an important contribution to this perennial and intensely debated theme by considering how public morality can be justified in theory and accommodated in practice within a liberal society...
Settlements and Fortifications of Aguateca (Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology)
by Takeshi Inomata
This volume is the supplement to ""Warfare and the Fall of a Fortified Center"". It contains 10 folded large-format maps approximately 22 X 28 inches; a CD-ROM containing data on architectural style and dimensions and data on artifacts, including their classification, dimensions, and other results of artifact analysis; and a 32-page 5 X 7 booklet that serves as a guide to the mapping and the CD-ROM.
Reinventing Licentiousness navigates an overlooked history of representation during the transition from the Qing Empire to the Chinese Republic—a time when older, hierarchical notions of licentiousness were overlaid by a new, pornographic regime. Y. Yvon Wang draws on previously untapped archives—ranging from police archives and surveys to ephemeral texts and pictures—to argue that pornography in China represents a unique configuration of power and desire that both reflects and shapes historic...
The only anthology devoted exclusively to the topic of pornography and censorship that is designed as a textbook. Its aim is threefold: To make students aware of (1) the vast scope of arguments concerning both the nature of pornography and what ought to be done about it; (2) the fact that there is more than one feminist position on pornography; and (3) the complexity of arguments about free speech. Balanced and up-to-date, the book is sensitive to the variety of feminist positions on pornography...
Earogenous Zones (Genre, Music & Sound)
In the growing scholarly literature on music in film, one category that remains discreetly neglected is pornography. Yet in 2003 it was reported that in Los Angeles alone there are more than 10,000 porn films made each year, as compared with average of 400 feature films coming out of Hollywood. This is, by any qualitative standard, a major film genre. From as far afield as the UK, the US, South Africa, Australia and Finland, this collection explores the role of sound and music across a wide spec...