New book on America's history of DIY porn

[kestrell]

Kes: I think my favorite is the pornographic potholders, although I'm also fascinated by the comics and other self-published materials.

America's Hidden World of Handmade Pornography
https://theconversation.com/americas-hidden-world-of-handmade-pornography-150514
by Lisa Z. Sigel, Professor of History at DePaul University
https://condor.depaul.edu/lsigel/

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

My that was a fun read, and the image descriptions were decent!

The closing paragraph is excellent

As much as the world might like to limit sexuality to the realms of the uplifting and transcendent, homemade pornography – in all its incoherent, libidinal, confusing strangeness – reminds us that we are imperfect in body and in mind, subject to pain as well as pleasure, willing to laugh at ourselves and each other, and moved equally by the ridiculous, the violent and the sublime.

[kestrell]

I like the idea that anyone who creates something, including when that creative work is pornographic, is an outside artist: it challenges the restricted, narrow way art gets defined in the first place.