Pornocopia, Updated Edition: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire (A Five Star Title) - Softcover

O'Toole, Laurence

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9781852427207: Pornocopia, Updated Edition: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire (A Five Star Title)

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ISBN 10: 1852427205 ISBN 13: 9781852427207

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2000

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Author Laurence O'Toole argues that the expansion of new technologies-video, cable, the Internet-is substantially changing the status of pornography in society. Covering the American and British porn scenes, Pornocopia features interviews with porn activists and police officers and is the first book to seriously consider the role and interest of the porn viewers and porn fans.

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About the Author:

Laurence O'Toole has written features and reviews forThe New Statesman, The Independent and The Daily Telegraph. He lives in London and travelled widely in the UK and the USA to research Pornocopia, his first book.

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Pornocopia is a fascinating guide to that overlit amusement park called commercial sex...Laurence O'Toole skilfully defuses all our anxieties in this thoughtful and provocative book * JG Ballard * Packed with revelations about the porn industry... intelligent and humane * Sunday Times * An excellent history of mass-market hardcore porn from the Sixties to the Nineties * GQ *

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