![]() ![]() His graphs, viewed in close focus, give us a rich view of the upheaval in global culture that has taken place since the nudist and bodybuilding magazines like Physique Pictorial, passed furtively from hand-to-hand among closeted men in the 1950s, giving way to Tom of Finland and the abundantly stuffed crotches of his models, and all that has followed since. Its author, Jeffrey Escoffier, a founder of OutLook and director of Out/Write, a professor who has taught at Berkeley, Rutgers, and The New School and is now a researcher at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, avoids pedantry. ![]() Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography, at $28 for the eBook, is enlightening and even affordable. Flipping through its charts and statistics, we might hear our own inner voice grumbling, Even queer fuckfilms have succumbed to the graphs of social scientists.īut, as with pornography itself, first impressions can be misleading. This book about pornography-with 28 pages of endnotes, a colon in the title, and a $173 price tag on the hardcover edition-unapologetically identifies itself as an academic tome. From Physique Pictoral to Pornhub, Jeffrey Escoffier’s New Book Charts The Way
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