Smut: A Sex-Industry Insider (and Concerned Father) Says Enough is Enough - Hardcover

Reavill, Gil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1595230122 ISBN 13: 9781595230126

Publisher: Sentinel HC, 2005

Synopsis

A liberal columnist and father of a middle-school-aged daughter argues for greater control of publicly aired sexual content in forums outside of parental control, calling for more balanced measures that would enable the private accessibility of mature subject material while equally protecting the rights of minors and individuals who find such content objectionable. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Gil Reavill is the coauthor of Raising Our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Build Self-Esteem and Save GirlsĀ’ Lives. He writes about true crime for Maxim and has a cultural review column in Penthouse.

From Publishers Weekly:

Reavill says that he wrote this book because the ways that we can access smut have multiplied "staggeringly, exponentially, absurdly." People who don't like it are "getting it shoved in their faces." And he admits he wants his middle school-aged daughter to grow up in a world that's "less trashy" than the one he believes we're living in now. In this made-for-the-choir work, the men's magazine insider (Reavill writes for Maxim and Penthouse) offers a highly personal account of what he finds wrong with explicit advertisements, children's television, the video game rating system and other popular culture mediums. "I am a staunch believer in the First Amendment," he insists, "but there is a whole boatload of things to say about balance and moderation." In generally restrained prose, Reavill explains what is currently being done to censor public indecency and what he believes needs to be done. Among his recommendations: use filtering devices for television and the Internet, implement an "acceptable use" policy for your family's Internet use and insist on "voluntary G-rated display policies" for local signage companies and newsstands. Reavill writes from an unusual perspective, which should bring attention to a book that may have otherwise been dismissed by many.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sentinel HC
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1595230122
• ISBN 13: 9781595230126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224