Pornocopia

In Pornocopia, Laurence O'Toole finds the expansion of the new technologies of video, cable and the internet is allowing porn to emerge from the shadows as an acceptable form of popular entertainment - out of the red light district and into the sitting room.

O'Toole argues that new technologies such as camcorders and the Internet are allowing pornography to emerge from the shadows as an acceptable form of popular entertainment. This critical analysis includes the views of women who make and use porn.

There's nothing fluffy or flowery about this collection of super-dirty adult stories. The 51 tales offered in "Pornocopia" cover a variety of sexual tastes and situations. Every story here is explicit and well plotted. Includes the Christmas classic "Santa's Stockings," the outrageously humorous "Cupid's Confession (the Little Prick with the Big Bow), and sex with female pirates in the Bermuda Triangle-inspired "Pirotica." Other stories include the ghostly "My Doll," where a realistic sex doll becomes a man's dead wife for one more night of pleasure, "Irish Cream," where a trip to Ireland leads to kissing more than the Blarney Stone, and "Eating Peaches," where peaches aren't the only sticky thing in Georgia. If you like your porn with plot, you'll love the abundant pleasures found in "Pornocopia." Carl Hose takes the reader on a rousing romp through a fantasy world of fairy tales as you've never imagined. With over 50 stories written surprisingly well, and plots that make sense in most instances, this is a book to take on vacation, for fun in the sun or just about anywhere. It's hard to pick out a favorite because there was something interesting in each story. Of course, due to the naughty nature of these deliciously decadent reads, you may want to take along a mini fan to cool off, just in case Priscella Petty, Night Owl Romance Reviews, 4/5 STARS!

Pornucopia is a picaresque black comedy that transgresses all bounds of everyday good taste. It begins in a near-future world where sex-vending machines and genital transplants are taken for granted. Prior Gross, the hero and sex object of this wild adventure, thinks his fantasies have all come true when a beautiful young woman seduces him on a public beach. She turns out to be a succubus, beginning his initiation into a realm populated by demons that are not merely horned, but horny. He encounters a perverse cast of characters that includes a satyr, a vampire, and a pair of luscious sisters, one of whom tricks him out of his manhood. So Prior Gross sets out on a perverse odyssey, taking him to a distant planet where he discovers the key to the return of his property and, ultimately, the origin of the universe itself.

"Pornocopia presents the kind of poetry that punches you in the face and leaves you with the taste of your own blood. It's the literary equivalent of being grabbed by the scruff of the neck and forced to acknowledge, then examine, your own shit on the carpet. Podmore, however, never presents himself as removed or exempt and it's precisely this unflinching honesty and torturous self-awareness that charges Pornocopia in all its brilliance." - A.D. Hitchin (Co-editor of CUT UP!; Author of Messages to Central Control, The Empath)

Sex Work Matters brings together sex workers, scholars and activists to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by the police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers new theoretical frameworks for understanding the sex industry. The result is a vital new contribution to sex-worker rights that explores the topic in new ways, especially its cultural, economic and political dimensions. Readers weary of the sensational and often salacious treatment of the sex industry in the media and literature will find Sex Work Matters refreshing.

An indispensable sampling of the vast assortment of publications which exist as an adjunct to the mainstream press, or which promote themes and ideas that may be defined as pop culture, alternative, underground or subversive. Updated and revised from the pages of the critically acclaimed Headpress journal, this is an enlightened and entertaining guide to the counter culture - including everything from cult film, music, comics and cutting-edge fiction, by way of its books and zines, with contact information accompanying each review.

Sexidemic is the first real cultural history of sexuality in the United States since the end of World War II. For a people who supposedly love sex, the author argues, Americans have had no shortage of problems with it. Since the end of World War II, in fact, we've had a contentious relationship with sexuality, the subject a source of considerable tension and controversy on both an individual and societal level. Rather than being a simple pleasure of life, something to be enjoyed, sex has served as a challenging and disruptive force in many Americans' everyday lives for the last two-thirds of a century. Our love affair with sex has thus been a rocky one, filled with bumps in the road that have caused major instability across our cultural landscape. Our individualistic, competitive, consumerist, and anxious national character is both reflected in and reinforced by this "sexidemic," something few have recognized or perhaps want to admit. By charting the cultural trajectory of sex in America since the end of World War II, Sexidemic reveals how the nation's continual woes with sexuality helped make us an anxious, insecure people. The sex lives of many, perhaps most Americans have been in a perpetual state of crisis, a constant source of concern. We've fretted over every dimension of it, with problems in both quality and quantity. With this unhealthy view of sexuality, it was not surprising that we felt we needed a variety of potions and gadgets to make it happen or be pleasurable. In tracing the cultural trajectory of sex in our society, Samuel illustrates our bipolar approach to sexuality: low libido and sex addiction emerged as common disorders, and sex scandal after sex scandal has made headlines, especially over the last couple of years. Only money has surpassed sex as a source of stress for Americans; indeed, sex has come to be seen and treated as a commodity. In this timely work, the author traces the role sex plays in our society, how it shapes us and the world around us, and how we got where we are today in our views, treatment, and practice of sex and sexuality in our everyday lives.

Pulled from the 20-odd years archives of material from the "National Lampoon"Us new breed of sophomoric talents including William S. Burroughs, Amy Ephron, John Hughes, Doug Kenney, Michael O'Donoghue, P.J. O'Rourke, Terry Southern and others. From soup to nuts, the "National Lampoon" has its own point of view on everything loosely associated with love.