The Porn Report
The first mainstream study of pornography in Australia, which draws on extensive empirical research.
Opinion
'The Porn Report cite the moral panic around fiction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a reminder that aspects of popular culture will always get people's knickers in a twist.'
The Monthly 4/2008
'There are some remarkable insights into porn users, whose attitudes tend to run contrary to those depicted in newspaper op-eds and reports - for or against.'
The Age 3/5/2008
About this Title
True or false?
o Most porn users are uneducated, lonely and sad old men.
o All porn is violent.
o Pornography turns people into rapists and/or paedophiles.
o Pornography uniformly portrays women as passive objects of men's sexual urges.
The Porn Report debunks these and many other misconceptions about porn consumers, producers and the industry at large.
In this first book-length account on pornography in Australia, Alan McKee, Kath Albury and Catharine Lumby present a comprehensive never-before-seen picture of the adult-content industries and its consumers.
If you've ever wondered what's in Australia's bestselling 50 porn videos and DVDs; what's behind amateur or do-it-yourself porn; and how porn is produced and distributed, The Porn Report will not only answer your questions, but also surprise you.
The authors also discuss feminist responses to pornography and provide important advice to parents on how they can protect their children from cyberstalkers and from viewing online porn.
If pornography arouses, repels or simply piques your curiosity, you cannot afford to miss The Porn Report.
To read Kath Albury's blog, find out about events and read reviews of the book, visit www.thepornreportbook.com
About the Author
Associate Professor Alan McKee is <info to come> in the Film and Television Department at Queensland University of Technology and is the author of The Public Sphere; Australian Television; The Indigenous Public Sphere; Textual Analysis; and Beautiful Things in Popular Culture. He has worked on the television shows Big Brother, The Einstein Factor, A Current Affair, Today Tonight and The Sideshow, as well as on a number of community television programs.
Dr Kath Albury is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Communication at the University of New South Wales. She is a member of the Health Promotion Sub-committee, New South Wales Health Ministerial Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS and STIs. Her first book, Yes Means Yes: Getting Explicit about Heterosex, was published in 2002.
Professor Catharine Lumby is the Director of the Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Communication at the University of New South Wales and also works for Rape Crisis New South Wales. She is the author of five books including Gotcha: Life in a Tabloid World and Bad Girls: The Media, Sex and Feminism in the 1990s.
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