Humb Day with Lupe Fuentes
Not since Leo Tolstoy’s “Anal Creampie Karenina” has a great work of literature become porn shorthand as quickly as Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” has.
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Fist in the Mouth, Not A Gun to the Head: Oriana Small’s “Girlvert”
That porn makes use of those things that occur in the wild is often confused with something that porn creates.
“Sinner Takes All”: Tera Patrick is Candid, Classy, and Coy
Patrick’s book should not be confused with “Sinner Tells All.” Just because it is unflinching doesn’t mean it scorches the earth.
Don’t Quibble with Tibbals: “Exposure” And Why It’s Problematic To Study Porn
“Exposure” is one woman’s journey through a world that seemed to be a lot nicer to her than the one she came from
You Can’t Spell Pahrump Without Pimp, Sort Of: Dennis Hof’s “Art of the Pimp”
Dennis Hof’s “The Art of the Pimp: A Love Story — One Man’s Search for Love, Sex, And Money” launches Porn Memoir Week.
Greene And Hartley Tag-Team Consenting Audience in “Master of O” Reading
Submissives are father to the master
Gentleman/collar: Ernest Greene’s Masterful “Master of O”
“Everyone is aware of limits, so that when the limits get breached there is a reckoning.”
“Gagged” Order: Help Julie Simone Stuff Your Mouth with Truth
“Gagged” is a conversation piece about people whose lips are sealed professionally.
“Tampa Teasers” And “Naked Came the Pornstar”: Porn from a Different Time And Place
Two books tell a story about porn in a (better?) time and place
Chauntelle Tibbals Studies That
Gram talks with Chauntelle Tibbals, Ph.D., about her new ebook, “You Study What?”
The 2012 Ropey Volley Awards: Books of the Year
Gram Ponante profiles three books worth reading, two that tell us about how we got here and one that wonders why we stay.
“Porn & Philosophy” or: The Myth of the Gape
Why have I never received any spam about being Nietzsche’s Übermensch in bed, or helping her acheive orgasm through the Kant or Clitomachus?
“Tickle My Tush”: A War And Peace of Ass
Gram Ponante reviews an ass tome
“At Louche Ends” with Maria Alexander [interview]
Maria Alexander talks about BDSM, spirituality, and “At Louche Ends,” her collection of poems. “It’s safe to say that this volume can be taken as one long drink of my sexuality,” she says.
“Stripper Quotes”: Boobie-loving best buddies blog a book
If their lives were a buddy movie, it would have a triple-X rating. Now Tim Case and Mike South, veteran pornographers, strip club managers, and straight-shooting old world gentlemen, have compiled a decade of blog posts and dressing room banter into the entertaining blook “Stripper Quotes And Other Stories From the Sex Industry”
John Holmes tells his own story in “Porn King”
No book has done more to complicate the legacy of the late John Holmes—to his favor—than “Porn King,” his fascinating work of semi-autobiography re-released by his widow, Laurie Holmes.
Sam Benjamin: How do you clean up after an “American Gangbang”?
I wanted Benjamin to leave porn for good and marry his colonic irrigationist, like a House At Gape Corner Kenny Loggins.
Adding “Inches” to John Holmes biography
Gram recommends the recently updated biography “John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches”
Gram’s Summer Reading List for Porno-Americans
Gram recommends five device-ready books for your summer betterment
Book launch and documentary prove John Holmes still isn’t “Exhausted”
Nearly a quarter century after his death, interest in John C. Holmes isn’t “Exhausted,” and you get the feeling Holmes wouldn’t have had it any other way.