Pornography

Rarely Pure and Never Simple by Scott O'Hara 

Detailing his ventures as a porn star, writer, playwright, and editor of the popular but short-lived journal STEAM, Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Selected Essays of Scott O'Hara includes poems and stories by O'Hara that express his opinions and feelings about monogamy, safe sex, male beauty, morality, social politics, and "being queer." Rarely Pure and Never Simple gives you an inside look into the life of this controversial author, who died in February 1998 of AIDS-related complications. O'Hara challenges the 'norms' of society as he discloses intimate thoughts and details about his sex life and fantasies.

"And witty, wise and wonderful words they are too. This has to be the most overlooked gay nonfiction title of the year. The cover and title aren't as titillating as the first volume of his memoirs, "Autopornography," but the writing's better. Scott shares with us the story behind STEAM magazine, the messy messy inside dirt on "Making Porn" (the play and movie inspired by his own porn star career), and his thoughts on approaching death. Typical of Scott, though, it's anything but depressing or maudlin. A sexy, smart, funny and inimitably shocking read from a gay icon who is sorely missed." -- Anonymous Reader

Wonder Bread and Ecstasy : The Life and Death of Joey Stefano by Charles Isherwood

Video pornography has been a staple of gay male culture for decades, but there is little written about the people who perform or produce this entertainment. Charles Isherwood has written a modern tragedy about the life and death of porn star Joey Stefano. After a rapid climb to the top, Stefano died of an overdose at age 26. Isherwood is a good reporter who holds no illusions about the porn industry. Ecstasy and Wonder Bread is both a hard-hitting exposé of an industry that uses people up and then spits them out and a sympathetic portrait of a young man whose desire for attention and fame was equaled only by his inability to say no.

 

ACLU -- American Civilian Liberties Union

The mission of the ACLU is to assure that the Bill of Rights -- amendments to the Constitution that guard against unwarranted governmental control -- are preserved for each new generation. 

Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse of Children -- The World Congress

In August 1996, the First World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children was held in Stockholm. It was attended by 1,879 people, including 718 government representatives from 122 countries, 105 delegates of United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations, 471 representatives of non-governmental organizations, 47 youth delegates and 538 members of the world's press.

 Recommended Sites from The World Congress:

Cyberspace Law Subject Index

From the John Marshall Law School.  This Index includes sections on Child Pornography and the protection of Children on the web. 

Location Independence, Obscenity, and the Internet

Essay by Yousuf Dhamee, Brown University.

Excerpt:

The most interesting (and the most complex) legal issue that faces the internet is rooted in the fact that the Net is not impeded by state or national boundaries. How can cyber-disputes be settled in court if one of the litigants resides in New York while the other lives in Hamburg? In the words of Diamond and Bates, "Whose rules apply in cyberspace?" The same document that is legally entered into a computer in one place may be illegal to download in another. The Net's antispatial nature defies attempts to regulate its informational flow from any one location. As Mitchell points out,

The Net negates geometry . . . it is fundamentally and profoundly antispatial. You cannot say where it is or describe its memorable shape and proportions or tell a stranger how to get there. But you can find things in it without knowing where they are. The Net is ambient-- nowhere in particular and everywhere at once...

Sourcebook on Criminal Justice Statistics on Pornography

This site includes Federal court cases, defendant characteristics, methods and modes of conviction, sentences, sentencing and sentencing guidelines, attitudes towards the laws and more.