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How Softcore Porn Penetrated Mainstream Media

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel August 23, 2022August 23, 2022

The exhibition Porno Chic to Sex Positivity at the Museum of Sex traces how once-verboten depictions of sex became gradually acceptable in pop culture.

Posted inFilm

Pleasure Dispels Male Fantasies of Porn

by Justine Smith May 10, 2022May 10, 2022

Ninja Thyberg’s film replicates a common plot structure for classic porn as it follows a young performer entering the business, but its focus is on the labor involved.

Posted inNews

Uffizi Is Suing Pornhub After It Turns Masterpieces Into Live Porn

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 21, 2021July 22, 2021

The company’s “Show Me the Nudes” initiative turns classic paintings from international museums into live pornography.

Posted inFilm

How Canada’s Most Glamorous Adult Theater Has Survived

by Justine Smith May 5, 2021May 6, 2021

The Cinéma L’Amour in Montreal hearkens back to the Golden Age of Porn.

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Is Any Modern Porn Worth Preserving?

by Justine Smith January 21, 2021January 25, 2021

There are many issues with keeping pornography in the historical record. Was anything of value lost in Pornhub’s recent massive video purge?

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Snapshots of Gay Culture and History in Pornography

by Juan Barquin June 18, 2020November 25, 2021

Elizabeth Purchell’s collage film Ask Any Buddy stitches together 100 adult films from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, illuminating aspects of everyday life amid the sex.

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Acclaimed Documentary Shakedown Has Made Its Streaming Debut on Pornhub

by Justine Smith March 3, 2020

The site is hosting Leilah Weinraub’s film about underground Black-owned lesbian clubs, as part of its venture into artistic legitimacy.

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Powerful Images of Pleasure and Experimentation Celebrate Queer Bodies

by Caden Mark Gardner January 27, 2020January 27, 2020

MoMA’s screening series “Now We Think as We Fuck”: Queer Liberation to Activism argues for the inclusion of less respectable films in the queer canon.

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How Porn Holds Up a Mirror to Society Through the Ages

Avatar photo by Roula Seikaly August 21, 2019August 26, 2019

Stag, on view at the Museum of Sex, presents the history of pornographic film going all the way back to the silent era.

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A Performance Artist Chronicles the History of Pornography in the Public Sphere

by Elyssa Goodman October 25, 2018October 24, 2018

In her new solo piece, Mette Ingvartsen unravels taboos onstage by reenacting key moments in the history of porn.

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A Playful and Prurient Performance About Pornography

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino March 20, 2018

In Prurience, Christopher Green asks his audience to “consider if society is in the grip of an actual addiction or a moral panic.”

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Reader’s Diary: The Porn of Poetry

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky January 29, 2017January 27, 2017

Dodie Bellamy’s Cunt Norton isn’t exactly pornography, but it’s a step in the right direction.

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