International Exposure: Perspectives on Modern European Pornography, 1800–2000
Lisa Z. Sigel
Language: English
Pages: 296
ISBN: 0813535190
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
International Exposure demonstrates the wealth of desires woven into the fabric of European history: desires about empire and nation, about self and other, about plenty and dearth. By documenting the diverse meanings of pornography, senior scholars from across disciplines show the ways that sexuality became central to the individual, to the nation, and to the transnational character of modern society.
The ten essays in the volume engage a rich array of topics, including obscenity in the German states, censorship in France’s Third Republic, “she-male” internet porn, the rise of incestuous longings in England, the place of the Hungarian video revolution in the global market, and the politics of pornography in Russia. Taken together, the essays illustrate the latest approaches to content, readership, form, and delivery in modern European pornography.
A substantial discussion of the broad history and state of the field complements the ten in-depth case studies that examine a wide range of sources from literature to magazines, video to the internet. By tackling the highbrow and lowdown of the pornographic form, this volume lays the groundwork for the next surge of studies in the field.
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Professional development. My students in History 330 at DePaul University served as guinea pigs for many of the ideas and materials in this volume. For their insights and enthusiasm, I would like to thank Teresa Alting, Melissa Avila, Paul Becker, Joy Coppoletta, Jenny Demetrio, Andy Harmon, Ryan Kawa, Elizabeth Mergen, Sarah Nedrow, Valerie Olson, Prerna Patel, Michael Valesco, and Glen Wellman. Tim Haggerty has been my editor, collaborator, and evil genius for this project and others. For the.
Managed a mix of sexual and nonsexual content that invites readers to treat sexual arousal as a game. These images, with their artistic elements (e.g., use of backgrounds, props, lighting, camera angles), manage to avoid the corpo-reality of the top shelf—it is all just a bit of fun and fantasy, not pornography per se. With the mantle of celebrity, these models are able to act out sexual self-empowerment and exploration free of the taint of exploitation that has dogged the top-shelf publications.
Positive.”66 As in the United States, performers are required to show producers and one another evidence of an HIV test no more than two weeks old. According to director István Kovács, the performers in this small universe are “taking care of themselves and each other.”67 Needless to say, not all Hungarians are pleased that their country is now home to Europe’s largest porn industry, especially since some of them consider porn entrepreneurs as social degenerates preying on the young and clueless.
And a world market through steamers, telegraphs, and trains. But new judicial and institutional structures also followed, as colonization allowed European and North American commerce to extend its grasp across the entire planet. Vice crossed borders easily. The Snowballing Effect of Vice Indeed, it was on the grounds of the transformation of society that the intellectual and moral elite agonized over the negative effect of reading the wrong material. Cities served as background for the expansion.
The magazine features serialized stories, anecdotes, poems, and chromolithographs that are sexually explicit and liberally embellished with flagellation. One of its serialized stories includes a narrative on the flogging and libidinous excesses of a slave plantation in Santa Cruz told by a West Indian schoolgirl to her English school friend.23 Ashbee, who felt the work featured stories as “cruel and crapulous” as those in Marquis de Sade’s Justine, indicates that it had a private issue of 150.