porn.com:
Making Sense of Online Pornography

Pornography has always been central to debates about sex and emerging new media technologies. Today, debate is increasingly focused on online pornographies. This collection examines pornography's significance as a focus of definition, debate, and myth; its development as a mainstream entertainment industry; and the emergence of the new economy of Porn 2.0, and of new types of porn labor and professionalism. It looks at porn style behind the scenes of straight hardcore, in gay, lesbian, and queer pornographies, in shock sites, and in amateur erotica, and investigates the rise of the online porn fan community, the sex blogger, the erotic rate-me site and the visual cultures of swingers. Treating these developments as part of a broader set of economic and cultural transformations, this book argues that new porn practices reveal much about contemporary and competing views of sex and the self, the real and the body, culture, and commerce.

Mainstreaming Sex:
The Sexualization of Western Culture

Our culture appears to be increasingly tranfixed by sex. Pole dancing is a form of keep fit, porn stars find work as agony aunts, and it is clearer than ever that 'sex sells'. This book examines the ways in which mainstream culture is becoming sexualized. It responds to contemporary public concerns about sexualization, to continuing debates about the regulation of sexual representations and practices, and to the idea that in all aspects of social and cultural life, sex is being 'mainstreamed'. The sexualization of mainstream culture has significant implications for sexual citizenship, sex education and media literacy, and raises a variety of important issues for academics, educators and policy makers.

Among the issues explored by contributors are film, print and online pornographies; the pornographication of mainstream culture; representations of masturbation in film and television; supersexualized advertising; problem page sex; young people's views of sex in mainstream media; women's use of sexual media in the home; pole exercise; and third wave feminism and the sexualization debate.