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‘Contemporary pornography has become a massive archive of sexual scripts. To some extent pornography has replaced sexology, psychoanalysis and sex manuals as a form of knowledge about sexuality.’ – Escoffier

In our second spotlight Lisa Z. Sigel explores American homemade porn in an interview on her book, The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America. Read the interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4jY

NOTCHES · The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in AmericaThe People’s Porn provides the first large-scale history of American handmade and homemade pornography.

Finally, we have Archives of Desire: Soft-Core Pornography and Activism in the 1960s by Helis Sikk, who looks into The Los Angeles Advocate and the pornography of Pat Rocco.

Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-1Y2

NOTCHES · Archives of Desire: Soft-Core Pornography and Activism in the 1960sThe Los Angeles Advocate captured the essence of an important segment of the LGBTQ culture.