PORN: MYTHS FOR TWENTIETH CENTURY

PORN: MYTHS FOR TWENTIETH CENTURY by Stoller, Robert J.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780300057553.

Bill Merlin Happy and Kay are among the porn-film performers and producers who tell their stories to Dr. Robert J. Stoller in this pschyodynamic ethnography of adult heterosexual pornography. Their engrossing accounts reveal in rich detail not only the inner workings of "the Industry" and the fantasies and motivations of its participants but also the relation between this most denigrated of occupations and "normal" human erotic behavior and attitudes. Consistently nonjudgmental about the material he presents Dr. Stoller nevertheless draws provocative conclusions about porn its practitioners and its effects on society. Everyone at work on a porn production he says uses it as a vehicle for unloading his or her rage against something--mores institutions laws parents females or males. According to Dr. Stoller pornography does not exist only to degrade women there is no reliable evidence that it increases the frequency of rape and (with the exception of child porn) it does little harm. Pornography says Dr. Stoller seems more the result of our changing society than a cause of change; it reflects more than influences our values and mores.