TY - JOUR
AU - Slade, Joseph W
AB - Book Reviews 131 viewpoints of how to do so is the challenge fu a “br - oad and politicized people’s pornography” ture generations face. (p. 163); and finally, to the 1970s to the pres- ent, when personal sexual experiences embod- Robin Doughty ied in amateur artifacts provided a frisson of University of Texas at Austin authenticity for jaded consumers. Austin, Texas Along the way she identifies a few cre- doi: 10.1093/jahist/jaac129 ators known for sustained imaginative output. Where provenance can be established, how- ever, it can still be problematic, as is the case The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Por- with the Kinsey Institute’s trove of prison ar- nography in America. By Lisa Z. Sigel. (Rea-k tifacts. Kinsey researchers furnished the mate- tion Books, 2020. 278 pp. $40.00.) rials to make them; wardens then shipped the handmade items to the institute. For Sigel, Erotic artifacts of ivory, gold, and porcelain by such intervention undercut spontaneous sexu- skilled artists from ancient cultures can now al expression, her litmus test for consideration. be found in museums, where their display Whimsical, mocking, or obsessive, naïve and confers respectability. In contrast, ordinary amusing or violent and disturbing, original Americans have long combatted 
TI - The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
JO - Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jaac130
DA - 2022-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-people-s-porn-a-history-of-handmade-pornography-in-america-Z5MsVbeLou
SP - 131
EP - 131
VL - 109
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -