Porn - Philosophy for Everyone: How to Think With Kink

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Authors: Dave Monroe,Fritz Allhoff,Gram Ponante

Tags: #General, #Philosophy, #Social Science, #Sports & Recreation, #Health & Fitness, #Cycling - Philosophy, #Sexuality, #Pornography, #Cycling

CONTENTS

 

Foreword: Filling in the Cave

 

Acknowledgments

 

Dirty Mindedness: An Introduction to Porn – Philosophy for Everyone

 

PART I LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! SUNDRY SEXY THOUGHTS

 

1 The Jizz Biz and Quality of Life

 

Eeew! Sucks to be a Porn Star!

 

Get Out Of My Bed!

 

Ways of Valuing Lives

 

Climax: Happy Slaves, Oppression, and Quality of Life

 

Afterglow

 

2 Strange Bedfellows: The Interpenetration of Philosophy and Pornography

 

Have You Anything Philosophical?

 

A Deeper Exploration

 

The Lay of Aristotle

 

Tying Up Loose Ends

 

PART II THE PORNOGRAPHIC MIND: Psychology and Porn

 

3 Yes.Yes! Yes!! What Do Mona’s Moans Reveal About Her Sexual Pleasure?

 

What Do Mona’s Moans Reveal About Her Sexual Pleasure?

 

Female Porngasm is More Interesting to Study than Male Porngasm

 

Most Porn is Designed to Activate and Appeal to Men’s Short-Term Sexual Strategies

 

Most Female Porngasms are Fake

 

Our Study

 

Results

 

But Female Porn Stars Do Love the Sex!

 

Correspondence Bias

 

Error Management Theory

 

Conclusions

 

4 Pornography as Simulation

 

The Tools of Folk Psychology

 

The Modern Perversion of Mental Simulation

 

Conclusions and Assessments

 

5 Brothers’ Milk: The Erotic and the Lethal in Bareback Pornography

 

AIDS as a Gay Disease?

 

Features of the Bareback Video

 

Cultural Responses to the Bareback Video

 

The Language of the Bareback Experience

 

Plenitude and the Death Drive in Bareback Porn

 

PART III BETWEEN THE SHEETS: Porn Ethics and Personal Relationships

 

6 Strange Love, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Porn

 

Going Deep

 

The Porns of Our Lives

 

Dial M for Missionary

 

For Your Thighs Only

 

A Clear and Present Stranger

 

Enema of the State

 

Good Will Humping

 

7 Cheating with Jenna: Monogamy, Pornography, and Erotica

 

8 Celebrity Sex Tapes: A Contemporary Cautionary Tale

 

Defensible Taping

 

The Public Appeal

 

Sexual Appeal

 

The Allure of Taping

 

Motivations for Release

 

The Complications of Releasing a Sex Tape

 

When Trust Fails

 

A Failed Career Move

 

Why We Still Tape

 

PART IV TALKING DIRTY: Legal Issues and Free Speech

 

9 One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Pleasure: Obscenity, Pornography, and the Law

 

Defining “Obscenity”

 

Will We Know It When We See It?

 

Here We Go Again

 

Anti-Porn Feminists, or the Best Answer to Bad Speech is Less Speech

 

Conclusion

 

10 What’s Wrong with Porn?

 

Pleasure as Power

 

Feminist Porn

 

Discussion

 

11 Bumper Stickers and Boobs: Why the Free Speech Argument for Porn Fails

 

“I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!”

 

The Preacher and the Porn Star

 

Picnic Sex and the Prudes

 

“Don’t look, Ethel!”

 

Tease Me,Whip Me, Persuade Me

 

Biting the Bullet

 

Hard Cases

 

If Porn Isn’t Free Speech, What Is It?

 

PART V THE ART OF DIRTY: Porn and Aesthetic Value

 

12 The “Fine Art” of Pornography? The Conflict Between Artistic Value and Pornographic Value

 

Two Caveats

 

Distinguishing Interests and Values

 

Relations Between the Pornographic and the Artistic

 

13 An Unholy Trinity: The Beautiful, the Romantic, and the Vulgar

 

Erotica and Pornography: From the Romantic to the Vulgar

 

Aesthetic Contemplation: The Romantic and the Beautiful

 

14 The Problem with the Problem with Pornography

 

What is Pornography?

 

The Wrongness of Pornography

 

The Victims of Pornography

 

A Different Tack

 

PART VI PORN AND TECHNOLOGY

 

15 Something for Everyone: Busty Latin Anal Nurses in Leather and Glasses

 

The 1970s:Adult Film Theatres

 

The 1980s: Home Video/VHS

 

The 1990s: DVD

 

The Oh-Oh Age of the Internet

 

16 Sex, Lies, and Virtual Reality

 

Virtual Reality: Immersive Pornography

 

Welcome to the Hyperreal World

 

The Future Obsolescence of Real Women

 

Hyper-Romance is Porn Too

 

Down the Rabbit Hole: Sexual Deviancy Flourishes in Unbounded Realities

 

Conditioned to be Sexually Deviant

 

Indulging in Forbidden Fruits Online

 

User Malfunction: Virtue Theory for a Virtual World

 

The Pornographic Singularity:A Bleak Prophecy

 

PART VII KINK:Alternative Porn and BDSM

 

17 What Do Heterosexual Men Get Out of Consuming Girl–Girl Pornography?

 

“At the very least, curious”

 

What Do Jenefsky and Miller Say About Girl–Girl Pornography?

 

What Do Jenefsky and Miller Assume About Men,Women, and Pornography?

 

Lesbian Utopias and Heterosexual Space Invaders

 

A Crazy Little Thing Called Jouissance

 

Conclusion:The Ethics of Heterosexual Jouissance

 

18 Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The “Violent” Controversy Surrounding SM Porn

 

Aisha’s Coming Out

 

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