In this eye-opening exploration, Laura Kipnis challenges our tendency either to demonize pornography or to dismiss it. Examining the entire spectrum of pornography--from the anti-porn positions of Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin to the activities of men's magazine publishers such as Larry Flynt--Kipnis challenges our most basic preconceptions about the meaning of porn.
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In this eye-opening exploration, Laura Kipnis challenges our tendency either to demonize pornography or to dismiss it. Examining the entire spectrum of pornography--from the anti-porn positions of Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin to the activities of men's magazine publishers such as Larry Flynt--Kipnis challenges our most basic preconceptions about the meaning of porn.
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This book looks (essentially) at how fantasy and reality are conflated in the social mind at large. From a legal case of a crime that wouldn't have happened without police interference to an examination of Hussler, Kipnis looks at how society generally takes someone's fantasy for something as an intent to engage in the activity. What do our handlings of sexuality and sexual fantasy mean? Worth the read to find out her take on it.