pornography
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The “Most Beautiful Thing That Ever Fucked”: The Rumpus Interview with Oriana Small
I was dying to interview Oriana Small about her porno memoir Girlvert.
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By the Time You’ve Seen It, It’s Too Late
Our best shot at understanding the foundation of obscenity law is through watching Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror film, The Evil Dead. In it, a group of (who else?) students stay (where else?) at a cabin in the woods. Amidst the…
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NANO Fiction vs. IRS
NANO Fiction, the bi-annual publication of flash-fiction/micro essay/ prose poems, was denied nonprofit 501(c)(3) status because the IRS deemed the journal pornography. Three months prior to their nonprofit application, they published an issue featuring the photography of Traci Matlock and…
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SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #2: Porn Takes It on the Chin
Today’s book battle pits Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women against Nadine Strossen’s Defending Pornography:
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #7: How To Be a Girl: Courtney Trouble’s Subversive Smut
Courtney Trouble’s no pedestrian pornographer. She’s a pale, femme, riot girl with squiggly tattoos and rocker bangs.
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The Scholars and the Pornographer
Dame Helen Gardner and George Newton Bowlin Laws—it seems funny, but very good to me to see them in the same sentence. I first saw Helen Gardner, brilliant scholar, denizen of Oxford University, later to be made a Dame on her…
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Recession Sex Workers #4: There’s No Place Like Porn: The Unstoppable MILF Zoey Holloway
Zoey Holloway’s background forced her to reckon with what it is to be “normal,” and she found home in the sex industry.
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Women’s Growing Love of Porn Is Changing the Market
“When everyone tells you that what you might be curious about, or even secretly like, is wrong, bad, sleazy, and shameful, you don’t have to cast a line very far to land a set of inhibitions.” So writes author and…