Pornography

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  • Adventures in the skin trade

    Whether you love porn or think it's an abomination, "The Other Hollywood" will shake up everything you think you know about the sex film industry.
    By Priya Jain March 12, 2005

  • The money shots

    Congress' anti-porn crusaders take the low road; a new report exposes the dirty funding of the "skin caucus"
    By Mark Follman March 11, 2005

  • Letters

    Readers respond to Charles Taylor's review of "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star": Um, no, some of us don't watch porn and don't know who Jenna Jameson is. And don't call us prudes!
    August 30, 2004

  • "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star" by Jenna Jameson

    World's biggest porn star tells all: Bad childhood, bad men, bad drugs -- but don't shed any tears for Jenna Jameson.
    By Charles Taylor August 25, 2004

  • "The Candy Men" by Nile Southern

    Terry Southern's son tells the wacky tale of his dad's '60s pornographic masterpiece "Candy," whose heroine is both dirtier and more innocent than today's dead-eyed Britney nymphets.
    By Charles Taylor June 10, 2004

  • American torture, American porn

    Abu Ghraib and "The Passion of the Christ" are connected in a dark basement of the American psyche.
    By Alessandro Camon June 7, 2004

  • Right Hook

    Steyn slams Bush for torture apology, Hagelin blames abuses on American porn culture; Savage calls for U.S. to kill "thousands" of Iraqi prisoners and drop an H-bomb on an Arab capital. Plus: Heartland hard-liners dub same-sex marriage licenses "death certificates."
    By Mark Follman May 19, 2004

  • Stop him before he clicks again!

    Internet filters were supposed to keep kids away from X-rated sites. Now some grown-ups, unable to stop porn-surfing on their own, are submitting to the filters themselves.
    By Lynn Harris April 15, 2004

  • Don't worry, be sexy

    The government tells the Supreme Court that Web publishers should relax -- a Web censorship law only applies to the "worst" porn peddlers. But why should we trust it?
    By Scott Rosenberg March 3, 2004

  • Yellow porn

    In the U.S. adult film industry, Asian women are a sexual fetish and Asian men are almost completely absent. Prof. Darrell Hamamoto wants to change that -- by producing skin flicks with Asian male stars.
    By Harry Mok October 10, 2003

  • "demonlover"

    Olivier Assayas' unclassifiable porn-capitalism thriller is a theory-addled nightmare -- but it's also a profound and troubling movie about contemporary life.
    By Charles Taylor September 19, 2003

  • Letters

    Readers respond to "Lenny Bruce Died for Our Sins," by Gary Kamiya, and "We're Losing the War in Afghanistan, Too," by John Sifton.
    August 28, 2003

  • Straight eye for the queer gals

    Why do men love to see women kissing? It's about self-loathing -- and the lusciousness of the female body.
    By Charles Taylor August 27, 2003

  • Lenny Bruce died for our sins

    Thanks to the martyred comedian, American culture is free to be a wild kingdom. But with his new anti-porn crusade, Attorney General Ashcroft wants to turn back the clock.
    By Gary Kamiya August 26, 2003

  • Traci talks

    Former underage porn queen Traci Lords chats about how Ronald Reagan saved her life, dressing like a pony for a Japanese spanking party, and how she's helping teen girls out of the kind of life she led.
    By David Bowman August 1, 2003

  • Sex, drugs and cheap vegetables

    In his new book, "Reefer Madness," Eric Schlosser rips into the American hypocrisy that drives pleasures of the flesh underground -- and turns a blind eye to exploited labor.
    By Gary Kamiya May 15, 2003

  • Notes from the underground

    How come porn is legal but dealing pot can get you a life sentence? Because the free market is a myth, says author Eric Schlosser.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski May 15, 2003

  • Naked on the set! Finale

    Wherein my life becomes a surreal blend of "Hedwig" and "All About Eve."
    By Paul Festa April 4, 2003

  • Naked on the set! Part 4: Archive fever

    It all boiled down to that courting query that my generation and adjacent ones will go to our erotic graves asking: "Hot or not?"
    By Paul Festa March 20, 2003

  • The newest reality show

    War is porn the whole family can watch together.
    By Augusten Burroughs March 15, 2003

  • The tyranny of Valentine's Day

    Forget compulsory, greeting-card romance. This year write your own love story.
    By Charles Taylor February 14, 2003

  • Three days in the Valley

    Photographer Larry Sultan finds poignancy before and after the action on porn sets.
    By Glen Helfand February 7, 2003

  • My date with the Virtual Sex Machine

    I inserted myself into the pink stimulation chamber and hit Play.
    By Mike Phillips February 5, 2003

  • Enough pretty women

    Photographer Richard Kern talks about doing drugs with Courtney Love, shooting girls brushing their teeth -- and being a good father
    By David Bowman July 12, 2002

  • Porn provocateur

    Lizzy Borden, whose ultraviolent films feature women being beaten, raped and doused in vomit, insists that she is a gender pioneer whose repellent movies are morality tales.
    By Janelle Brown June 20, 2002
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