The Big Book of Porn: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Movies
Seth Grahame-Smith, . . Quirk, $19.95 (208pp) ISBN 978-1-59474-040-4
More loving than smutty, this riff on the glory of dirty movies has more double entendres than an X-rated film, but charms with its sincerity. Firsttime author Grahame-Smith first gives a chronology of the porn industry, mentioning nude photography of the early 1900s before going into the Hays Code film regulations of 1930, and then into porn's heyday in the 1970s. Once the history lesson is complete, the author veers into extensive lists of his favorite "classic" films, which he categorizes as featuring actors and actresses without tattoos, but with plenty of body hair. He rhapsodizes about the luscious quality of porn stars from the
Reviewed on: 11/21/2005
Genre: Nonfiction