Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction. The Soul of Pornography 1
6. Part I. The Permissive Society and Its Discontents
7. 1 Two Notional Regimes of Permissiveness 51
8. 2 An Anti-Permissive Front 94
9. Part II. The Hardcore
10. 3 The ‘Connoisseur of Female Beauty’ and the ‘Curve Prospector’: Harrison Marks and Russell Gay 139
11. 4 Erectile Dysfunction and Societal Dysfunctionality: The John Lindsay Loops 168
12. Part III. The Softcore
13. 5 Derek Ford in Essex 197
14. 6 Tory Erotica: Sexual Fantasies for the Nouveau Riche 219
15. 7 David Hamilton and Uranian Aesthetics 235
16. Coda. Post-Permissive Pornography 269
17. 8 ‘Fucking Bang Me Like a Slag!’: Men with Men after Thatcher 271
18. Conclusion. ‘That’s What the Average Man Wants’ 290
19. References 296
20. Index 317