San Antonio College Library

"In this provocative and courageous defense of pornography, Wendy McElroy goes beyond the standard First Amendment arguments and illustrates how pornography benefits women and the feminist movement. Her arguments are based on the classic principle of "A woman's body, a woman's right." She believes that women have the right to enjoy, learn from, and participate in pornography."--Jacket.

There is no doubt that child pornography on the Internet is a serious and escalating problem. Some estimates are that up to 20 percent of pornography on the Internet involves depictions of minors, 90 percent of whom appear to be under the age of 12 years. Some offenders have been arrested with collections of up to one million images. The role of the Internet in fueling the problem of child pornography is enormous. Prior to the Internet, child pornography...

This work provides not only a history and survey of pornography, but an explanation of pornography itself. It uses anthropological material, particularly from South American tribal societies, to draw conclusions about the nature of the industry.

"Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, debates over pornography have raged, and the explosive spread in recent years of sexually explicit images across the Internet has only added more urgency to these disagreements. Politicians, judges, clergy, citizen activists, and academics have weighed in on the issues for decades, complicating notions about what precisely is at stake, and who stands to benefit or be harmed by pornography. This volume takes...

"In this defense of pornography from a utilitarian-hedonist perspective, philosopher Alan Soble strongly rebuts both feminist and conservative criticism. Soble demonstrates that neither conservative nor feminist critics of pornography show much acquaintance with the genre they criticize, suggesting that purely political motives underlie their critiques instead of reasoned, objective arguments based on thorough empirical research." "Soble also faults...

For years, women in pornography were little more than the eye candy used by the adult entertainment industry to sell men movies, magazines, and other sex products. Today, female performers are taking charge of their careers by producing their own films, opening couples-friendly sex stores, launching adult Web sites, publishing pornographic magazines, and writing thoughtful, analytical sex commentary. For the first time ever, Naked Ambition gives...