Publisher's Synopsis
In this book, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of antiporn/anti-censorship position-taking, to analyze what hard-core pornography is and does.;Pornography has been for men and about women. Yet in hard core's attempt to solve the riddles of sex, with more, different, or better sex, the monolith of masculine pleasure breaks down and the possibility of women using pornography for their own purposes begins to emerge.;To this end, Linda Williams follows the generic development of hard core through its silent, primitive stag form into feature-length films like "Deep Throat" and "Behind the Green Door" and up to its recent sado-masochistic and "couple's market" permutations, showing how hard-core pornography has begun to respond and react to changing gender relations.
