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Explores the lives of people involved in America's sex industry, examining pornography, sex rituals, the world of go-go dancers, and prostitution
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Sylvia Plachy, a photographer for the Village Voice, and James Ridgeway, a reporter for the same publication, have delved into the depths of the pornography trade to explore and explain both its allure and its vulgarity. There is a sense of shock value in exposing the most lurid of fantasies--a man who has his dominatrix mummify him in concrete--that is tempered with theories as to how such an industry could have evolved. We also get to meet for ourselves those in the trade, providing a walk on the wild side within the safe confines of photographs and words.
About the Author
Sylvia Plachy is the staff photographer for The Village Voice. Her first book, Unguided Tour (Aperture), won the ICP Infinity Award for Best Publication of 1990. Her photographs have appeared in Newsweek, Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Grand Street, Wired, DoubleTake, and Tatler, among many others. ; James Ridgeway is Washington correspondent for The Village Voice. He is the author of fifteen previous books, including The Haiti Files: Decoding the Crisis; and Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture. Ridgeway co-directed the companion film Blood in the Face, as well as Feed, a documentary on the 1992 presidential campaign. His writing has appeared in Parade, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, The Nation, The Economist, The New York Times Magazine, among many others.
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- PublisherpowerHouse Books
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1576870006
- ISBN 13 9781576870006
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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