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Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren Publisher Comments Read Jillian Lauren's posts on the Penguin Blog. A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity by Robert Jensen Publisher Comments In our culture, porn makes the man. So argues Robert Jensen in Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity. Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bound and Gagged by Laura Kipnis Publisher Comments In a book that completely changes the terms of the pornography debate, Laura Kipnis challenges the position that porn perpetuates misogyny and sex crimes. First published in 1996, Bound and Gagged opens with the chilling case of Daniel DePew, a man... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Affair of the Mind by Laurie Hall Publisher Comments Laurie Hall's story reveals pornography's subversive side and offers comfort, encouragement, insight, and a plan of action to women whose husbands are addicted.... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Magic Gardens: The Memoirs of Viva Las Vegas by Viva Las Vegas Publisher Comments A Midwest preacher's daughter with a fabulous academic pedigree, Viva could have chosen any career, but chose to become a naked girl. This personalized tour of her milieu offers a unique perspective on a thriving industry that is largely condemned or... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families by Pamela Paul Publisher Comments “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... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mediated Sex: Pornography and Postmodern Culture by Brian Mcnair Publisher Comments Mediated sex is about the proliferation of sexual discourse in all its variants, from pornography as narrowly defined to the "s/m chic" of advertising and the art of Jeff Koons and Madonna. It examines the place of these representations in late-20th... (read more) Your price: $66.25 New - Trade Paper
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Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry by Melinda Tankard Reist Publisher Comments The unprecedented mainstreaming of the global pornography industry is transforming the sexual politics of intimate and public life, popularizing new forms of hardcore misogyny, and strongly contributing to the sexualization of children. Yet, challenges... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome by Amy Richlin Publisher Comments The first large-scale application of feminist theory to the study of Greek and Roman cultures, this book points to some striking similarities between our culture and that of the ancient world, challenging Foucauldian assumptions about the nature of... (read more) List Price $61.75 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom by Aiden Shaw Synopsis Sordid Truths chronicles the author's ascent from being just another broke college boy who dabbled with the idea that he could sell his young body for hard cash, to becoming the internationally renowned adult film superstar. After finishing just one year... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir by Rachel Lloyd Publisher Comments During her teens, Rachel Lloyd ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. With time, through incredible resilience, and with the help of a local church community, she finally broke free of her pimp and her past and devoted herself to helping... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Working Sex: Sex Workers Write about a Changing Industry by Annie Oakley Publisher Comments Dispelling the myth that sex workers are anything short of innovators and artists, Working Sex brings strippers, prostitutes, dommes, film stars, Internet models, and others together into a fascinating and groundbreaking collection. Featuring... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Pornography: The Other Side by F. M. Christensen Publisher Comments A unique and important book. I have never read any work which analyzes the subject in such a manner. This book is more thorough and has a more liberated point of view than others which attempt to tackle this `hot potato' of the 1980s. Men should read... (read more) Your price: $87.75 New - Hardcover
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Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right by Whitney Strub Publisher Comments While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and... (read more) Your price: $32.50 New - Hardcover
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International Exposure: Perspectives on Modern European Pornography, 1800-2000 by Lisa Z. Sigel Publisher Comments International Exposure demonstrates the wealth of desires woven into the fabric of European history: desires about empire and nation, about self and other, about plenty and dearth. By documenting the diverse meanings of pornography, senior scholars from... (read more) Your price: $31.25 New - Trade Paper
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Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture by Walter Kendrick Publisher Comments Walter Kendrick traces the relatively recent concept of pornography--the word was not coined until the late 18th century--which became a public issue once the printing press gave ordinary people access to the erotica of the Greeks and Romans, the art and... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture by Damon Brown Publisher Comments “A stimulating look at two of today’s most controversial subjects. . . . Sure to amaze and titillate anyone who’s ever hoisted a videogame controller.”—CNN Tech Correspondent Scott Steinberg No book until Porn and Pong has... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate by Lynne Segal Publisher Comments Over the past twenty years debates about pornography have raged within feminism and beyond. Throughout the 1970s feminists increasingly addressed the problem of men's sexual violence against women, and many women reduced the politics of men's power to... (read more) List Price $33.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England by Steven Marcus Publisher Comments Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audience, and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of Victorian pornography in particular, Steven Marcus offers a startling and revolutionary perspective on the underside of Victorian... (read more) Your price: $38.50 New - Trade Paper
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Christians, Feminists, & the Culture of Pornography by Arthur J. Mielke Publisher Comments In this pioneering study in religion and culture, Mielke acknowledges the power that pornographic images continue to assert in a culture whose conscious intention is to deny their attraction. Despite efforts by Christians and feminists alike to radically... (read more) Your price: $67.25 New - Trade Paper
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