A lot of books to be found are either histories, fossils from the culture wars, or come from the “road to hell!” bible-belt. Here are a few of the more useful primers for serious thinking about contemporary erotic representations…

ISBN: 0822333120

Porn Studies

ISBN: 0520219430

Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible”, Expanded edition

ISBN: 0822342855

Screening Sex

ISBN: 0813538718

Pornography: Film and Culture

ISBN: 1889307203

Pr0nnovation?: Pornography and Technological Innovation

ISBN: 1873176090

Tales from the Clit: A Female Experience of Pornography

ISBN: 0304336386

The Reader, the Author, His Woman, and Her Lover: Soft-Core Pornography and Heterosexual Men

ISBN: 1841501646

One for the Girls!: The Pleasures and Practices of Reading Women’s Porn

ISBN: 0814210228

Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts

ISBN: 0826490697

Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits And Politics of Sex in Performance



   
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Supplies needed for camping out in Finland with Touko Laaksonen (aka Tom of Finland): several crates of canned beefcake; a large pole or two; a brace of stiff tent-pegs ready for a good hammering; a set of close-fitting leather chaps; bear attractors; ability to vigorously rub two hard sticks together and get a spark; can handle sopping wet canvas in a big blow. Check all? Then off you go…

ISBN: 3822838497

Tom of Finland: The Comic Collection (Complete Boxed Set)

ISBN: 3822826073

Tom of Finland XXL (1000 page collection)

ISBN: 3836502909

Tom of Finland: The Complete Kake Comics

ISBN: 0312205260

Dirty Pictures: Tom of Finland, Masculinity, and Homosexuality

ISBN: 3822857637

Tom of Finland: The Art of Pleasure

ISBN: 031211365X

Tom of Finland: His Life and Times

Tom of Finland: Retrospective I (Tom of Finland Foundation)

Tom of Finland: Retrospective II (Tom of Finland Foundation)

Tom of Finland: Retrospective III (Tom of Finland Foundation)

Tom of Finland Exhibition 1994-95, exhibition catalogue of the Tom of Finland Foundation

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Tom of Finland: Daddy and the Muscle Academy (DVD documentary)



   
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Ginger up your life…

ISBN: 1582343446

Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning and Sexual Power of Red Hair

ISBN: 0811848582

Playboy: Redheads

ISBN: 0964521601

The Redhead Encyclopaedia (warning: includes “dyed” redheads!)

ISBN: 390816317X

Redheads by Uwe Ditz (Photobook)

ISBN: 3908163579

Freckles by Michael Neugebauer (Photobook)

Redheads by Joel Meyerowitz (Photobook)

Seeing Red: The Rapture of Redheads (Photobook)

Root Ginger (Photobook)

Freckles and Red Hair

Make Up for Redheads

Redhead: Fabulous Makeovers for Ultimate Beauty

The Redhead Book: A Book for & about Redheads

MC1R: natuurlijk rood haar (Dutch photobook)

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The Lulu photobook MC1R



   
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ISBN: 155583650X

The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe.

ISBN: 1560234792

Bi America: Myths, Truths, and Struggles of an Invisible Community.

ISBN: 1555831745

Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

ISBN: 1884365094

Bi Lives: Bisexual Women Tell Their Stories.

ISBN: 0965388158

Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World.

Bisexual Lives (true stories from the UK).

Erotica and film:

ISBN: 0953881601

Unlimited Desires: An International Anthology of Bisexual Erotica.

ISBN: 078900142X

Bisexual Characters in Film: From Anais to Zee.

Politics:

ISBN: 0374531080

Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics.

ISBN: 1560249501

Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions.

Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority.

Academic books:

ISBN: 0226020908

A History of Bisexuality.

ISBN: 0140230971

Vice Versa: Bisexuality, Eroticism and the Ambivalence of Culture.

ISBN: 0415926610

Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life.

ISBN: 0415166608

Bisexuality: A Critical Reader.

ISBN: 1560231483

Bisexuality in the Lives of Men.

ISBN: 081476634X

RePresenting Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire.

ISBN: 0304337455

Bisexual Imaginary: Representation, Identity and Desire.

ISBN: 0826409237

Bisexualities: the ideology and practice of sexual contact with both men and women.

Bisexuality: A Reader and Sourcebook.



   
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The UK before the internet arrived…

ISBN: 0389203548

Offensive Literature: Decensorship in Britain, 1960-1982 (Overwhelmingly deals with politically-motivated censorship of sex in the theatre and literary books).

ISBN: 0701138734

Censored: What They Didn’t Allow You to See, and Why – The Story of Film Censorship in Britain.

ISBN: 0953326187

The Seduction of the Gullible: The Curious History of the British “Video Nasties” Phenomenon.

Pornography in Britain: industries, markets, audiences, 1954–1992.

Soft Core: moral crusades against pornography in Britain and America.

The Fall Of Scotland Yard. (On the complete corruption of London’s Obscene Publications Squad in the 1960s and 1970s).

Porn Brokers: the rise of the Soho sex barons.

Sex Shops And The Law. (A very good account of the spread of sex shops from Soho to almost every town in the UK).

ISBN: 1905287542

Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema.

Doing Rude Things: History of the British Sex Film, 1957-81.

ISBN: 0202304361

Intimate Enemies: Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain.

ISBN: 0304337854

Policing desire: pornography, AIDS, and the media.

ISBN: 3901935061

Sex and the British: A Perspective on the Sexual Content of British Art Since the 1960s.

God’s Cop: James Anderton. (He was the main champion of the waves of raids on lesbian and gay bookshops in the 1980s).

Difficult to obtain:

The Naked World of Harrison Marks (He was a leading British publisher of glamour magazines. Forthcoming book).

We made £200,000. The story of B.H. & D.S. (David Sullivan). (Sullivan was a leading British publisher of glamour magazines, and with the Gold brothers was later responsible for the rapid spread of sex shops to the provinces in the early 1980s).

Soft-Core: a content analysis of legally available pornography in Britain 1968-1990. (Unavailable. The best analysis).



   
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The best of retro femme art — tight-lacing, stockings and kinky corsets, and damsels in distress…

Paperback pulps:

ISBN: 0896899683

Dames, Dolls & Delinquents: A Collector’s Guide to Sexy Pulp Fiction Paperbacks

ISBN: 1932595341

Dope Menace: The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks

ISBN: 0811830209

Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback

Comics:

ISBN: 1905814224

Erotic Comics: A Graphic History vol 1

ISBN: 1905814372

Erotic Comics: A Graphic History vol 2

ISBN: 086719653X

Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings

ISBN: 0810996340

Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster

ISBN: 006074698X

Foul Play: The Art and Artists of the 1950’s E.C. Comics

Stanton:

ISBN: 3822884995

The Art of Eric Stanton: For the Man Who Knows His Place

The Art of Stanton: Master of Bizarre

ISBN: 3822837830

The Dominant Wives & Other Stories (Taschen 25th Anniversary)

The Kinky Hook: A Bondage Classic By Eric Stanton

Stantoons: Bound Beauty – Eric Stanton’s Tops & Bottoms #1

Stantoons: Lady in Charge – Eric Stanton’s Tops & Bottoms #2

Stantoons: Vonda Sorrel, Pin-Down Interrogation

Sweeter Gwen

The Adventures of Sweeter Gwen, Volume 1

The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline, 2nd Ed.

Stanton Presents: Sweeter Gwen & The Return of Gwendoline (with Giant Full-Color Poster!)

Reprint magazine boxed sets:

ISBN: 3822892696

The Complete Bizarre Reprint for Slaves of Fashion

ISBN: 3822874361

Exotique (Boxed set)

Pin-ups:

ISBN: 1575440806

Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend

ISBN: 3836505053

1000 Pin-up Girls (25th Anniversary Special Edition)

ISBN: 3836503050

Elvgren: Taschen 25th Anniversary Special Edition



   
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“She’s a doll…”

ISBN: 097667081X

Still Lovers (photobook on men and Real Dolls)

ISBN: 1862057141

Exhibitionist / Agent Provocateur: Public Displays and Private Revelations (photobook of sexy shop-window displays)

ISBN: 078644794X

The Sex Doll: A History

ISBN: 0520209842

Behind Closed Doors: the art of Hans Bellmer

ISBN: 0415944511

Life like Dolls: the collectible doll phenomenon and the lives of the women who love them

ISBN: 082231620X

Barbie’s Queer Accessories



   
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“I want a dog…”

ISBN: 0899974325

Sex in a Tent: A Wild Couple’s Guide to Getting Naughty in Nature

ISBN: 0897325796

Sex in the Outdoors: A Humorous Approach to Recreation

ISBN: 0609804022

How to Have Sex in the Woods

ISBN: 1844425894

Sex in the City: Day and Night – 365 Positions, Places and Scenarios for Round-the-clock Sex

ISBN: 0202302830

Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places (pre gay-lib, from 1975)

ISBN: 3798602530

Dogging: Guide fur Outdoorsex / Dogging: Guide to Outdoor Sex (in German)

ISBN: 1862057141

Exhibitionist / Agent Provocateur: Public Displays and Private Revelations (photobook of sexy shop-window displays)



   
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Welcome to the SexiPorniWebs…

ISBN: 0521832969

Love Online: Emotions on the Internet

ISBN: 0062515489

The Woman’s Guide to Sex on the Web

ISBN: 0615188109

From MySpace to My Place: The Men’s Guide to Snagging Women Online

ISBN: 1932595368

Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture

ISBN: 1584504595

Sex in Video Games

ISBN: 0786428015

Virtually Obscene: The Case for an Uncensored Internet

ISBN: 0822330873

Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia

ISBN: 0415931037

Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyberage

ISBN: 0595357687

Fantasies Online: Confessions of an Internet Pornographer

ISBN: 3836420805

Gays in CyberSpace

ISBN: 0595256120

Eroticabiz: How Sex Shaped the Internet

ISBN: 1905204663

sex.com (true story of the 12 year battle for the domain name)



   
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If your lover is one of those who “doesn’t do reading” (sigh!) — they can just look at the pictures! Just the classics…

ISBN: 1603090444

Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie: Hardcover Edition

ISBN: 3822863017

Emmanuelle, Bianca and Venus in Furs by Guido Crepax

ISBN: 3822863025

Justine and the Story of O: the Marquis de Sade by Guido Crepax

ISBN: 1560972009

Birdland by Gilbert Hernandez

ISBN: 1561631698

Pinocchia by Gibrat

ISBN: 3861873834

For the Boys by Joe Phillips

ISBN: 1560975199

Small Favors by Colleen Coover

ISBN: 1561632074

The Adventures of a Lesbian School Girl by Jennifer Finch

ISBN: 1561632309

Ship of Fools by Ignacio Noe (collectable – used only, at high prices!)

ISBN: 0867194707

Twenty by Erich Von Gotha



   
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Your DIY bondage bookshelf!

ISBN: 1931160635
How to be Kinky: A Beginner’s Guide to BDSM

ISBN: 1847324533
Bondage for Beginners: Tie-Me-Up Tricks and Knots

ISBN: 1890159131
Jay Wiseman’s Erotic Bondage Handbook

ISBN: 193116049X
Two Knotty Boys Showing You The Ropes: A Step-by-Step Illustrated Guide for Tying Sensual and Decorative Rope Bondage

ISBN: 1931160694
Two Knotty Boys Back on the Ropes

ISBN: 0977723801
Bondage For Sex

ISBN: 1890159131
Jay Wiseman’s Erotic Bondage Handbook

ISBN: 1935509020
Ropes Bondage and Power

ISBN: 1887895035
Rope Bondage: Precision and Persuasion with Rope

ISBN: 1890159387
The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage

ISBN: 061514490X
Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macrame

ISBN: 0973668806
The Better Built Bondage Book: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own Sex Toys, Furniture …



   
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Robot dreams…

ISBN: 0061359750

Love and Sex with Robots.

ISBN: 0976082233

Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews.

ISBN: 1558505342

American Sex Machines: The Hidden History of Sex at the U.S. Patent Office.

ISBN: 0801866464

The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology).

ISBN: 1856268551

Rad Robots: A Celebration of Awesome Automatons: the Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (some coverage of fembots).

ISBN: 1560258519

Sex in the System: Stories of Erotic Futures, Technological Stimulation, and the Sensual Life of Machines.

ISBN: 0313241023

Eros in the Mind’s Eye: Sensuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film.

ISBN: 0785142940

Sky Doll (graphic novel about a sexbot – censored in the USA).

ISBN: 0330250914

Shape of Sex to Come (classic sci-fi anthology).

ISBN: 0905310055

Great Balls of Fire: History of Sex in Science Fiction Illustration.



   
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