Sigel Author. Description The first history of American handmade and homemade pornography, The People's Porn offers the backstory to the explosion of amateur pornography on the web. In doing so, it provides a much-needed counterweight to ahistorical and ideological arguments that dominate most discussions of pornography. Critics tend to focus on mass-produced materials and make claims about pornography as plasticized or commodified. In contrast, eminent historian Lisa Z. Sigel looks at what people made , rather than what they bought, revealing how people thought about sexuality for themselves.
The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
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Sigel, a historian from DePaul University, the same interest that captivated me at the flea market beckoned me to read the book. The book begins with a history of handmade pornographic objects between and , the kind of items you would expect in a material culture study of sexual crafts and art, such as a naked lady scrimshaw. The second chapter delves into one of the main tensions in the study, the give and take between commercial and handmade porn from to the s. Chapter 3 examines items the Kinsey Institute collected from men in prison, while chapter 4 examines how the art world interacted with handmade pornography in the mid twentieth century. Then, the final chapter, looks briefly at amateur pornography since the s.