Introduction: why pornography? / Joy Simmons Bradley. In the arms of the angel: playfulness, creativity and porn's possibilities / Susanna Paasonen -- Pornography makes the man: the impact of pornography as a component of gender and sexual socialization / Matthew B. Ezzell -- Truth claims about porn: when dogma and data collide / Shira Tarrant -- Pornographic and pornified: feminist and ecological understandings of sexually explicit media / Robert Jensen -- The problem with the problem of pornography: subordination, sexualization, and speech / Jacob M. Held -- The price we pay?: pornography and harm / Susan J. Brison -- Heidegger, feminism, and pornography / Natalie Nenadic -- Pornography and "speech" / Jennifer Hornsby -- Pornography and the philosophy of language / Louise Antony -- Porn, sex, and liberty: a dialogue / Nina Hartley and Jacob M. Held -- The gentle side of pornography: a contemporary examination of pornography's depiction of love and friendship / Lindsay Coleman -- Undisciplining pornography studies / Katrien Jacobs -- Sisters are doin' it for themselves: black women and the new pornography / Ariane Cruz -- Utopic futures of the "Other": Pornography and the creative imaginary / Taine Duncan -- In the arms of the angel: playfulness, creativity and porn's possibilities / Joy Simmons Bradley.
Summary:
"In The Philosophy of Pornography: Contemporary Perspectives, Lindsay Coleman and Jacob M. Held offer a collection of essays covering a wide range of viewpoints--from issues of free speech and porn's role in discrimination to the impact of porn on sexuality. These essays investigate the philosophical implications of pornography as a part of how we now seek to conceive and express our sexuality in contemporary life."--Page 4 of cover.
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