The Porn Report

Alan McKee · Catharine Lumby · Kath Albury

Mar 2008 · Melbourne Univ. Publishing

About this ebook

True or false: Most porn users are uneducated, lonely and sad old men All porn is violent Pornography turns people into rapists and/or paedophiles Pornography uniformly portrays women as passive objects of men's sexual urges The Porn Report debunks these and many other misconceptions about porn consumers, producers and the industry at large. In the first comprehensive examination of the production and consumption of pornography in Australia, Alan McKee, Kath Albury and Catharine Lumby present a wide-ranging view of the adult-content industries and its consumers. If you've ever wondered what's in Australia's bestselling 50 porn videos and DVDs; what's behind amateur or do-it-yourself porn; and how porn is produced and distributed, The Porn Report will not only answer your questions, but also surprise you. The authors also discuss feminist responses to pornography and provide important advice to parents on how they can protect their children from cyberstalkers and from viewing online porn. If pornography arouses, repels or simply piques your curiosity, you cannot afford to miss The Porn Report.

About the author

Associate Professor Alan McKee runs the Television degree in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology and is the author of five books, including The Public Sphere and Australian Television. He has worked on many television shows including Big Brother, The Einstein Factor, Today Tonight and The Sideshow.
Dr Kath Albury is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Communication at the University of New South Wales. She is a member of the New South Wales Health Ministerial Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS and STIs. Her first book, Yes Means Yes: Getting Explicit about Heterosex, was published in 2002.
Professor Catharine Lumby is the Director of the Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Communication at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of five books including Gotcha: Life in a Tabloid World and Bad Girls: The Media, Sex and Feminism in the 1990s.