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Article: Pornography research made easy.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Pornography and Sexual Representation: A Reference Guide (Vol. 1). By Joseph W. Slade. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001, 392 pages. Cloth, $110.00.
As anyone who has ever tried to do any kind of research on pornography knows, it's a trying job. Owing to the marginalized status of the genre, serious study has only begun relatively recently, and that study has tended to focus itself either on highly abstract theoretical research or equally specialized clinical studies. Lacking an established disciplinary territory of their own, many scholars of pornography have seen their work categorized in various fields outside sexology. Thus, interdisciplinary ...