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Social Science Pornography

Sex Carnival

by (author) Bill Brownstein

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2000
Category
Pornography, Sexuality
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550224153
    Publish Date
    Nov 2000
    List Price
    $22.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554900251
    Publish Date
    Nov 2000
    List Price
    $11.95

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A whimsical, eye-opening record of one man's travels into the bold new world of porn. A guide for the uninitiated and the bewildered, a hands-on intro for anyone who wonders why the porno biz has become so mainstream in just the last few years. Brownstein's global travels take him from watching Tristan and other sex superstars accept their trophies at the annual porn awards ceremony in Las Vegas to witnessing the weekend shopping sprees of Dutch families as the kids push their grocery carts through the biggest sex supermarkets on earth. He takes us from dungeons and dragons pleasure chambers in New York to a different kind of pleasure?the rough trade in Hamburg. And along the way, he stops off to catch some lap-dancing in Montreal and all kinds of unexpected action at the sex bars of Paris. A lively account of our obsession with the business of sex, an odyssey of one man's encounters with a universe of titillation that is fresh, original, naughty, and very bizarre.

About the author

Bill Brownstein is a columnist with the Montreal Gazette, and the author of Schwartz’s Hebrew Delicatessen: The Story. He made two documentary films, Bill Lee: A Profile of a Pitcher, about former Montreal Expos pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee and Skating on Thin Ice, about the nomadic life of two journeymen hockey players in the NHL. He is the author of Sex Carnival, a whimsical peek into the wide world of sex, and Down The Tube, an account of the week he spent watching TV. He is also co-author and co-editor of The Great Canadian Character Anthology, and a lover of smoked meat.

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