Tales from the Clit: A Female Experience of Pornography

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Summary: Too many different opinions
Review: Book of essays of women in the sex industry. Interesting enough but I seemed to finish essay to essay not feeling complete in my questions of women in the sex industry.

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Summary: Personal escapes from conformity
Review: Sex is important to us all because sex is how we got here -- it's a fundamental drive. Puritans of every faith and political persuasion forbid depictions of this most precious and fun moment, and the short essays in this book lash out at those puritans. Each of the writers experienced an epiphany of freedom after reconciling their attraction to whatever kind of pornography snared their imaginations. Each continues to struggle against the forces of law, conformity, religion, and repression that waste our time with preposterous threats of social collapse and eternal damnation. Their discoveries, preferences, prescriptions, playthings, and proselytizing made excellent reading for me. In part, I found the essays moving because many of the writers experience the same sorts of ambivalence I've had toward porn. Additionally, the essays are intensely personal statements of individual sexual philosophy and history. "Tales from the Clit" is like a pile of letters from outrageous friends -- if you choose to be friendly with women who like porn.

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Summary: Far more textured...
Review: This book goes into the heads of various women involved in the pornography world, and explores their good, bad and ambivalent feelings towards porn. The women involved freely admit that some porn is degrading, while other porn is fantastic. And I agree with them.

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Summary: Glad we have the First Amendment
Review: This series of twenty-seven essays from the Feminists Against Censorship covers from the woman's perspective. The book has a tendency to drag in its middle section. It is simply too much of the same argument. Yes we know that the United Kingdom has harsh censorship laws. We know that some porn can be educational as well as entertaining. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big proponent or opponent of the genre. But I do feel that consenting adults have the right to decide what materials they, within reason, are allowed to bring into their homes and to read and purchase. This book gives the very basics of the argument but don't look for much resolution of the problem in the pages of this book.

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Summary: The title and the cover are the best things about this book.
Review: While the arguments are valid, this book drags on and on AND ON AND ON and on. With the exception of How To Program in C++ I had to read in college, this is by far the most boring book I've ever read. Excellent material to keep on the bedside table in case of insomnia, though!