The Porn Library Archive
In my latest newsletter, I talk about The Porn Library and what’s in this evolving archive. Read it and subscribe.
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The Porn Library More Recent Updates
I’ve added some new materials to The Porn Library, a compendium of books, movies, television series, journalism, essays, podcasts, art, photography, and online works by authors, filmmakers, directors, journalists, podcasters, essayists, playwrights, artists, photographers, and other creatives about the past, present, and future of the adult movie industry that I created in May. They are Mope directed by Lucas Heyne, Sex Before the Internet produced by VICE TV, Naked Ambition: Women Who Are Changing Pornography by Carly Milne, “In the Playpen of the Damned” by George Plimpton, and Porn Archives by Tim Dean. Check it out.
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The Porn Library Recent Updates
Awhile back I created The Porn Library, which is a compendium of books, movies, art, and more about the adult movie business. Recently, I’ve added a few more. They are The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America by Lisa Z. Sigel, Smutcutter: How I Survived Porn by Sonny Malone, and Sexytime: The Post-Porn Rise of the Pornoisseur by Jacques Boyreau. Got a suggestion? Submit it here.
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The Porn Library Expands
In a previous post that I titled “The Porn Library,” I shared a list of books about the adult movie industry. After I posted it, I started thinking about how there are other works about the porn industry in other mediums: like, for example, movies, TV shows, and art. So I created The Porn Library. Basically, it’s a compendium of works about the adult movie business. That includes books like Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire by Laurence O’Toole, movies like 8mm directed by Joel Schumacher, journalism like my own “They Shoot Porn Stars, Don’t They?”, podcasts like The Last Days of August by Jon Ronson, and artworks like 003.jpg by Adam Connelly. Aware of something that I’m missing? You can share your suggestions with me here.
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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
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