How do we talk about porn Why it is that when we do talk about porn,we tend to retreat into the abstract How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us
In Porn: An Oral History,Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for understanding,she spent a year initiating intimate conversations with nineteen acquaintances of a range of ages,genders and sexualities about everything and anything related to porn: watching habits,emotions and feelings of guilt,embarrassment,disgust and shame,fantasy and desire.
Soon,unfolding before her,was exactly the book that she had been longing to encounter - not a traditional history,but the raw,honest truth about what we aren't saying. A landmark work of oral history written in the spirit of Nell Dunn,Porn is a thrilling,thought-provoking,revelatory,revealing,joyfully informative and informal exploration of a subject that has always retained an element of the taboo.
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo EditionsISBN: 9781804270400Dimensions: 197 x 125 mm
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'I found my time with Porn: An Oral History unexpectedly moving. Barton's candid,generous style as an interlocutor allows her subjects to move fluidly between their sometimes contradictory instincts and intellectual approaches in a way which feels revelatory and totally honest and human. A pleasure to read,and a vital new work for anyone interested in sex and its representation.'- Megan Nolan,author of Acts of Desperation
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