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Explores the lives of people involved in America's sex industry, examining pornography, sex rituals, the world of go-go dancers, and prostitution
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Sylvia Plachy, a photographer for the Village Voice, and James Ridgeway, a reporter for the same publication, have delved into the depths of the pornography trade to explore and explain both its allure and its vulgarity. There is a sense of shock value in exposing the most lurid of fantasies--a man who has his dominatrix mummify him in concrete--that is tempered with theories as to how such an industry could have evolved. We also get to meet for ourselves those in the trade, providing a walk on the wild side within the safe confines of photographs and words.
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Sylvia Plachy is the staff photographer for The Village Voice. Her first book, Unguided Tour (Aperture), won the ICP Infinity Award for Best Publication of 1990. Her photographs have appeared in Newsweek, Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Grand Street, Wired, DoubleTake, and Tatler, among many others. ; James Ridgeway is Washington correspondent for The Village Voice. He is the author of fifteen previous books, including The Haiti Files: Decoding the Crisis; and Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture. Ridgeway co-directed the companion film Blood in the Face, as well as Feed, a documentary on the 1992 presidential campaign. His writing has appeared in Parade, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, The Nation, The Economist, The New York Times Magazine, among many others.
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- PublisherPowerhouse Books
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1576870014
- ISBN 13 9781576870013
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. #248 of 300 copies containing an original silver gelatin print. Edition of three hundred. Includes a signed and numbered slipcased book and a seven by nine inch silver-gelatin photograph, signed and numbered by the artist. "eminently satisfyinga lurid glimpse into the lives of the strippers, adult film stars, dominatrixes, and prostitutes who make up the sex industry." The New York Times Book Review The sex industry, declares Village Voice Washington correspondent Ridgeway, is an agent of social control, a safety valve for a repressed, confused patriarchal culture that transforms the hunger for sex and power into a commercial product laden with worn-out male fantasies of a prefeminist world. This survey of the sex business combines Ridgeway's essay incorporating strenuously nonjudgmental interviews with prostitutes, porn-video makers, actors, strippers, topless dancers, a dominatrix and other sex workers in the New York metropolitan area with arty, often explicit photographs by Village Voice staff photographer Sylvia Plachy. Some interviewees speak of sex work as a socially valuable or personally empowering profession; for others, it's a way to get by. Ridgeway looks askance at an impersonal industry where contact with another human body is increasingly replaced by electronically enhanced onanism, but he is equally critical of the "sex police," by which he means law enforcement agencies, often in league with conservative family-values groups and antiporn activists. With its jazzy layout and garish photos, this volume comes across as a celebration of an arena it purports to analyze. Seller Inventory # ABE-17850433097
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