The Porn Library
Since I am working on two books that concern themselves with pornography—a novel and a nonfiction book—I thought I would start compiling a list of books about porn. These are not recommendations, per se, but books that trade in the subject in some way, whether that’s a ghost written autobiography of a porn star or a novel or an art book. The only thing not included is anti-porn nonfiction books; those are dumb.
NB: These books are presented in no particular order, and this list will be expanded over time.
Blue Money by Carolyn See
Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism by Heather Berg
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-Rated Video by Robert Stoller
Girlvert: A Porno Memoir by Oriana Small
The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs McNeil
Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below by Jane Kamensky
My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir by Chris Offutt
Porn Studies by Linda Williams
Traci Lords: Underneath It All by Traci Lords
Porno by Irvine Welsh
XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz by Ron Jeremy
Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire by Laurence O’Toole
The Valley by Larry Sultan
Preachers vs. Porn: Exposing Christianity’s War on Sexxx by Mark Kernes
The Money Shot: A Play by Neil LaBute
XXX: A Woman’s Right to Pornography by Wendy McElroy
The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know by Shira Tarrant
Camgirl by Issa Mazzei
Playboy’s Greatest Covers by Damon Brown
The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure by Tristan Taormino
Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood by Maitland Ward
Porn Art by Dahmane
Dreamland by Jeff Burton
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale by Jenna Jameson
Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine by Allan MacDonell
Thy Neighbor’s Wife by Gay Talese
X-Rated: Adult Movie Posters of the 60s and 70s by Tony Nourmand
Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible” by Linda Williams
From Princess to Porn Star: A Real-Life Cinderella Story by Tasha Reign
Have a suggestion for The Porn Library? Let me know.
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