Normalizing the marginal -- A nation of porn stars -- Popping Rosie's rivets : porn in the good old days -- Porn exemplars : advancing the front lines of porn -- Would you like porn with that burger? -- The nexus of porn and violence : Abu Ghraib and beyond -- Women and porn -- Where we go from here
Summary
"In tracing porn's transformation - from the Civil War to the golden age of comic books in the 1940s and 1950s to the adult film industry's golden decade of the 1970s and up to today - the authors illustrate that what began in the dark alleys of American life has now emerged as an unapologetic multibillion-dollar industry."--Inside jacket
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index
