Books like Skinflicks by David Jennings

Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano hunt a serial killer in Philadelphia who reenacts Hollywood’s most grisly death scenes, forcing them into a dark underworld where the line between victim and perpetrator blurs.

"This one-of-a-kind book shares intimate personal stories of porn performers "coming out" to family, friends, partners, lovers, and community. The contributors represent a wide range of races, ethnicities, and genders. They include Joanna Angel, Annie Sprinkle, Betty Blac, Nina Hartley, Candida Royalle, Conner Habib, Dale Cooper, Christopher Zeischegg, Cindy Gallop, Drew DeVeaux, Erika Lust, Gala Vanting, Casey Calvert, Lorelei Lee, Stoya, Ignacio Rivera AKA Papi; Coxxx, and many others. Jiz Lee is a genderqueer performer who, fascinated by the radical potential of sex, love, and art, has worked in over two hundred projects within indie, queer, and mainstream adult genres, written on gender and porn in The Feminist Porn Book, and taught queer sex workshops. "-- "This one-of-a-kind book presents the stories of porn performers "coming out" -- or the decision not to come out -- to family, friends, partners, lovers, and community. Notably, the contributors represent a wide range of races, ethnicities, and genders. Contributors include Tina Horn, Papi Coxxx, Chelsea Poe, Chris Lowrance, Anon, Zahra Stardust, Jaffe Ryder, Ms Naughty, Nikki Silver, and Oriana"--

In this now-classic study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does - as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality. For the 1999 edition, Williams has written a new preface and a new epilogue, "On/scenities," illustrated with 26 photographs, and has added a supplementary bibliography.

This in-depth, comprehensive history of cinematic pornography is the first book of any kind to detail sex in film. It probes the earliest attempts of a century ago and chronicles the proliferation of porn to the present, concentrating on the last quarter-century since the legendary Deep Throat, when porn penetrated popular culture. Luke Ford is the best-known source on the contemporary world of pornography - the only journalist writing about the industry, yet not employed by the industry. It is this unique position that gives Ford the objectivity he needs to successfully complete a project such as this.