Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (853 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1900486768 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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"From Another Carl Ruderman Fan" according to DCBikeGirl. Your book was amazing! I downloaded it to my kindle and could NOT put in down last night. You perfectly capture the atmosphere of the office, that slight paranoia, tinged with smarmyness, with the forced instance that everything around here is perfectly normal. I too worked in the industry, though far more recently, but it seems nothing has changed.Your assessment of CR is priceless. I too, have sat in front of that exquisite Victorian desk, surro. B. A. Nilsson said Eager for Beaver Street. There used to come a time in the teenhood of most guys when you graduated from Playboy to more single-purposed periodicals, type of magazine that, before the Internet all but did them in, offered improbably fantasy images that nevertheless served a single purpose. And thus sold well.Robert Rosen was in the editorial trenches of a number of such magazines, and "Beaver Street" unhesitatingly chronicles not only the rise and fall of the industry but . Excellent personal history of pornography in America. The book was a great readvery well-written and a page turner, too. While I am not a porn officionado, I do love history. This is one, excellent history of a movement whose real background and players are not well-known to most out of the industry. If you are looking for your next good read, this should be the book.
"Beaver Street is an electrifying journey through porn's golden age." --The Sleazoid Podcast"Beaver Street is brutally honest vividcompelling fascinating." --Sharan Street, Editor, Adult Video News"A confessional for-adults-only romantic comedy with a rare, thoughtful twist riveting." --David Comfort, Seattle Post-Intelligencer"Whatever twisted fantasy you might've had, you can bet that Rosen once brought it to life in print." --Ben Myers, Bizarre"Shocking evocative entertaining A rich account that adds considerable depth and texture to any understanding of how the pornography industry worked." --Patrick Glen, H-Net"HOT TYPE! Pick of the mo
They both do freelance editorial work for Vanity Fair magazine. Rosen's work has appeared in publications all over the world, including The Independent (U.K.), Uncut (U.K.), Headpress journal (U.K.), Mother Jones, The Soho Weekly News, La Repubblica (Italy), Dagospia (Italy), <
In BEAVER STREET: A HISTORY OF MODERN PORNOGRAPHY, Rosen blows the lid off the lucrative and politically hounded adult industry, providing a darkly engaging account of its tumultuous decades--from the defining Traci Lords scandal and the conception of 'free' phone sex to the burgeoning success of smut in cyberspace in the twenty-first century.. For sixteen years Robert Rosen worked behind the X-rated scenes of such porn magazines as High Society, Stag, and D-Cup