Nineteen candid interviews explore personal relationships with porn, desire, shame, and the ethics of a rarely discussed industry.
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Nineteen candid interviews explore personal relationships with porn, desire, shame, and the ethics of a rarely discussed industry.
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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 w...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Pervasive explicit talk of porn habits, fantasies, desire, and sex acts
Violence & gore
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Recurring talk of violent porn and its influence on real sex
Profanity
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Occasional strong language in candid adult interview transcripts
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Interviewees include varied genders and sexualities throughout
Religious content
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Brief mention of Christian upbringing shaping porn guilt
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult content present
Political content
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Central themes of feminism, capitalism, and porn industry ethics
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Talk of sexual violence, trauma, consent failures, and coercion
Other
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