• ISBN13: 9780786720101
• Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Product Description
Hardcore porn—both the straight and gay varieties—entered mainstream American culture in the 1970s as the sexual revolution swept away many of the cultural inhibitions and legal restraints on explicit sexual expression. The first porn movie ever to be reviewed by Variety, the entertainment industry’s leading trade journal, was Wakefield Poole’s Boys in the Sand (1971), a sexually-explicit gay movie shot on Fire Island with a budget of $4000. Moviegoers, cele… More >>

Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore

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