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The Big Book of Porn: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Movies
Porn is more mainstream than ever witness recent bestsellers by Jenna Jameson, Traci Lords, The Vivid Girls, and Pamela Anderson. Continuing this fine tradition is The Big Book of Porn a friendly, funny celebration of adult movies. Chapters - Know Your The 25 most important adult films.
- Great Moments in Porn From the first stag movie to the invention of the VCR.
- The Pantheon of These mini-bios of mega-stars like Seka and Ron Jeremy are filled with surprising trivia.
- It's a Porn World, After Adult movies from Canada, Japan, even Afghanistan.
- Make Your Own All you need is a video camera, a willing partner, and these simple pointers ("Tell a story," "Start with a bang," "Parody a real film title"). Best of all, The Big Book of Porn is illustrated with classic posters, stills, and production shots from the smutty '70s to the present day. Provocative, authoritative, and laugh-out-loud funny, The Big Book of Porn is a proud celebration of history's most scandalous art form.
- Great Moments in Porn From the first stag movie to the invention of the VCR.
- The Pantheon of These mini-bios of mega-stars like Seka and Ron Jeremy are filled with surprising trivia.
- It's a Porn World, After Adult movies from Canada, Japan, even Afghanistan.
- Make Your Own All you need is a video camera, a willing partner, and these simple pointers ("Tell a story," "Start with a bang," "Parody a real film title"). Best of all, The Big Book of Porn is illustrated with classic posters, stills, and production shots from the smutty '70s to the present day. Provocative, authoritative, and laugh-out-loud funny, The Big Book of Porn is a proud celebration of history's most scandalous art form.
208 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2005
About the author
Seth Grahame-Smith
18 books2,770 followersSeth grew up in Connecticut reading Stephen King from a way-too-early age and forcing his friends to be in homemade horror movies. He’s written three New York Times Bestselling novels (and another one that kind’ve flopped but got good reviews). He occasionally writes or produces movies. The ones you like the most are probably THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE and IT. Right now he’s working on a GREEN LANTERN series for HBO Max. Please stop asking him when it comes out. He’s a partner in Katzsmith Productions, a film and television company based in Los Angeles. He has a lovely wife, two fine sons, and two comically dumb dogs.
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July 21, 2011
I got this as a bachelorette party gift, because, well, my friends are like that. It had been passed down from friend to friend and intended to serve as one of those "awkward" gifts (we've had quite a few). However, I noticed Grahame-Smith's name on the cover, and then I read it. It's pretty good, without being too vulgar. It shines a light on a multi-billion-dollar industry around the world and what trends and taste levels lie within us all. If you've a dirty mind, it's not a bad read.
June 30, 2011
I'm the kind of person that could not in good conscious leave a book like this behind after I saw it. Asides from being a rather thorough history of the porn industry, it's just funny as hell. Sure, it's not for the uptight puritan out there. But for those of us honest (sick, perverted) enough to not worry, it's definitely worth a look. There's no doubt you'll remember it.
Want to read
July 3, 2009Okay, I probably won't ever read this, but the title alone made it worthy of my "to-read" shelf!
June 7, 2008
Lots of facts, a bit of sarcastic humor and wit towards the last 1/3 or so of the book. I giggled out loud a few times. Reads through like a novel (sort-of), but other than that it's not really a re-read or something that would be kept. Worthy of a once over then a trade in at a UBS or sold on eBay.
June 4, 2008
Yes, but have you read it in GERMAN?
October 3, 2015
Interesting industry info.
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November 21, 2012this is a interested book.
March 15, 2015
A cool book.
January 19, 2019
This was pretty entertaining but needed more information on the porn industry and less on unimportant things like how to make your own porn, how to clean a disc properly, and where to hide discs around the house, like behind a picture frame. It wasn't necessary either to list places to buy porn or adult toys because anyone can Google that and find countless places to buy stuff. I think all the afore mentioned stuff was done to fill space. The author's very funny but I wish this had been a little more serious.
There are about eighteen pages at the beginning that give a very brief history of porn, beginning with the creation of motion pictures, and goes in chronological order. That section is seriously lacking.
The book is a large and heavy paperback, almost two pounds, that's in full color with glossy pages and a whole lotta photos and minimal nudity.
I liked the author listing his top twenty favorite classic (pre-1984) porn films. I've only seen five:
01. The Opening of Misty Beethoven
02. The Dancers
03. Taboo
04. Talk Dirty to Me
05. The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue
06. Insatiable
07. Debbie Does Dallas
08. Alice in Wonderland
09. Sex World
10. Deep Throat
11. Blonde Ambition
12. Babylon Pink
13. Wanda Whips Wall Street
14. Every Inch a Lady
15. Behind the Green Door
16. Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here
17. Female Athletes
18. Bite
19. Tigresses...And Other Man-Eaters
20. Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle
I received this from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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