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.

1. Blue Money by Carolyn See

2. Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism by Heather Berg

3. Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk

4. Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-Rated Video by Robert Stoller

5. Girlvert: A Porno Memoir by Oriana Small

6. The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs McNeil

7. Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below by Jane Kamensky

8. My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir by Chris Offutt

9. Porn Studies by Linda Williams

10. Traci Lords: Underneath It All by Traci Lords

11. Porno by Irvine Welsh

12. XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

13. Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz by Ron Jeremy

14. Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire by Laurence O’Toole

15. The Valley by Larry Sultan

16. Preachers vs. Porn: Exposing Christianity’s War on Sexxx by Mark Kernes

17. The Money Shot: A Play by Neil LaBute

18. XXX: A Woman’s Right to Pornography by Wendy McElroy

19. The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know by Shira Tarrant

20. Camgirl by Issa Mazzei

21. Playboy’s Greatest Covers by Damon Brown

22. The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure by Tristan Taormino

23. Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood by Maitland Ward

24. Porn Art by Dahmane

25. Dreamland by Jeff Burton

26. How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale by Jenna Jameson

27. Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine by Allan MacDonell

28. Thy Neighbor’s Wife by Gay Talese

29. X-Rated: Adult Movie Posters of the 60s and 70s by Tony Nourmand

30. Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible” by Linda Williams

31. 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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