A landmark work of oral history interrogating everything and anything related to porn.
How do we talk about porn? Why is it that, when we do, we so often retreat into abstraction or discomfort? And how can we have honest conversations about it with the people closest to us?
In her extraordinary second book, acclaimed writer and translator Polly Barton confronts the silence surrounding a topic that is both omnipresent and deeply personal. Over the course of a year, she initiated intimate conversations with twenty acquaintances—of different ages, genders, and sexualities—on everything and anything related to porn: watching habits, guilt, shame, fantasy, desire, discomfort, and curiosity.
What emerged was not a conventional history, but something more urgent and raw—a vivid portrait of our private relationships with pornography, shaped as much by silence as by exposure. Like the work of Nell Dunn, Porn: An Oral History is a revelatory, thought-provoking, and disarmingly candid collection that challenges taboos with empathy, humor, and insight.
Bold, deeply human, and joyfully informal, this is the book Barton had long wished to read—and has now written with unflinching honesty.
Physical Info: 4.9 x 0.9 x 7.7 inches | 368 Pages | French Paper with Flaps