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By Claire Hines, Darren Kerr

Even in our more and more sexualized tradition hard-core pornography and the illustration of specific intercourse continues to be tough to swallow. This full of life and provocative new number of essays by means of best students explores reveal representations of pornography and intercourse in various cultural, old, and significant contexts. Contributions conceal a variety of issues from intercourse within the multiplex to on-line alt-porn, from girls in stag movies to the excesses of utmost pornography, and quite a few modern case experiences together with porn functionality, style in hard-core, and homosexual and lesbian pornography.

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