Description
| Product ID: | 9781804270400 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Porn |
| Subtitle: | An Oral History |
| Authors: | Author: Polly Barton |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Oral history, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Reportage & collected journalism, Oral history, Ethical issues: pornography & obscenity |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A landmark work of oral history interrogating everything and anything related to porn. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Publisher Name: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-16 |
