Ethical Issues: Pornography & Obscenity

Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playin...

Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playin...

The unquenchable thirst of Dracula. The animal lust of Mr. Hyde. The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Victorian literature--with its overtone...

This text provides empirical research on some of the most controversial media issues of our times. The first chapter investigates such issues as th...

Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about po...

Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about po...

The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s is remembered as a time of great freedom for women. But did the sexual revolution have the same goals ...

Obscenity is central to an understanding of medieval culture, and it is here examined in a number of different media. Obscenity is, if nothing els...

Lyombe Eko carries out an historical and cultural survey of the regulation of visual depictions of explicit human sexual conduct from their earlies...

What distinguishes humanity from artificial beings? What do constructed creatures tell us about ourselves? From sex dolls to Siri, talking Barbies...

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...

With full-frontal genitalia, erections, even actual sex featuring increasingly in films, this explicitness in presentation has caused critical cons...

This comparative historical study explores the broad sociocultural factors at play in the relationships among U.S. obscenity laws and literary mode...