title: Mediated Sex: Pornography and Postmodern Culture (Hodder Arnold Publication)
author: Brian Mcnair
description: <br />"In his impressively wide ranging and level-headed overview of sex and its representation, Brian McNair boldly... and very productively... goes where few feminist cultural theorists would dare to tread. Students of cultural studies, of sociology and of women's studies will find Mediated Sex a most valuable addition to the literature."--Annette Kuhn, <em>University of Glasgow</em>
zlib_text: Theology Library 
  SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY 
  AT CLAREMONT 
  California 
  
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  Art and Pornography 
  
  STUDIES IN SEX AND SOCIETY 
  Sponsored by the Institute for Sex Research 
  Indiana University 
  Bloomington, Indiana 
  . 
  Steven Marcus / The Other Victorians 
  Morse Peckham / Art and Pornography 
  Theodore Bowie & Cornelia Christenson (eds.) / 
  Studies in Erotic Art 
  GENERAL EDITOR FOR THIS VOLUME: JOHN H. GacNnon 
  
  ART 
  and 
  PORNOGRAPHY 
  ~ An Experiment in Explanation 
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  Morse Peckham 
  BASIC BOOKS, Inc., Publishers New York/London 
  
  © 1969 by Morse Peckham 
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-94292 
  Manufactured in the United States of America 
  Design by William Davis 
  
  For Robert M. Ockene 
  
  PREFACE 
  Thave called this study in the interdependence of art, pornography, 
  and sexual behavior, and in the function of pornography in the 
  various modes of human behavior we name personality, culture, and 
  society, an experiment in explanation. It is my conviction that