Porn - Philosophy for Everyone How to Think With Kink
by Allhoff, Fritz; Monroe, Dave; Ponante, GramEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-08-16
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
This anthology takes the ever-controversial discussion of pornography out of solely academic circles; it expands the questions about porn that academics might tackle and opens the conversation to those who know it bestthe creators and users of porn. Features essays on non-traditional issues in porn, including celebrity sex tapes, virtual sex, S&M, homosexual porn, and technology's impact on the porn industry Features fascinating insights from psychologists, a lawyer, and an English professor, as well as industry insiders such as Dylan Ryder A fun, entertaining, and philosophically provocative approach to pornography, written for the general reader
Author Biography
Editor
Dave Monroe is an instructor at the Applied Ethics Institute of St. Petersburg College, Florida, and adjunct instructor of philosophy at the University of Tampa. He is the co-editor of Food & Philosophy, with Fritz Allhoff (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).
Dave Monroe is an instructor at the Applied Ethics Institute of St. Petersburg College, Florida, and adjunct instructor of philosophy at the University of Tampa. He is the co-editor of Food & Philosophy, with Fritz Allhoff (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).
Series Editor
Fritz Allhoff is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Foreword: Filling in the Cave | |
| Dirty Mindedness: An Introduction to Porn - Philosophy for Everyone | |
| Lights, Camera, Action!: Sundry Sexy Thoughts | |
| The Jizz Biz and Quality of Life | |
| Strange Bedfellows: The Interpenetration of Philosophy and Pornography | |
| The Pornographic Mind: Psychology and Porn | |
| Yes. Yes! Yes!! What do Mona's Moans Tell us About her Sexual Pleasure? | |
| Pornography as Simulation | |
| Brothers' Milk: The Erotic and the Lethal In Bareback Pornography | |
| Between the Sheets: Porn Ethics and Personal Relationships | |
| Strange Love, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Porn | |
| Cheating with Jenna: Monogamy, Pornography and Erotica | |
| Celebrity Sex Tapes: A Contemporary Cautionary Tale | |
| Talking Dirty: Legal Issues and Free Speech | |
| One Man's Trash is another Man's Pleasure: Obscenity, Pornography, and the Law | |
| What's Wrong with Porn? | |
| Bumper Stickers and Boobs: Why the Free Speech Argument for Porn Fails | |
| The Art of Dirty: Porn and Aesthetic Value | |
| The 'Fine Art' of Pornography? The Conflict Between Artistic Value and Pornographic Value | |
| An Unholy Trinity: The Beautiful, The Romantic and The Vulgar | |
| The Problem with the Problem with Pornography | |
| Porn and Technology | |
| Something for Everyone: Busty Latin Anal Nurses in Leather and Glasses | |
| Sex, Lies and Virtual Reality | |
| Kink: Alternative Porn and BDSM | |
| What Do Heterosexual Men Get Out of Consuming Girl-Girl Pornography? | |
| Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The 'Violent' Controversy Surrounding SM Porn | |
| Ruminations of a Dominatriz: An Interview with Mz. Berlin | |
| Notes on Contributors | |
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