The UK before the internet arrived…

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

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

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).

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

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

Intimate Enemies: Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain.

Policing desire: pornography, AIDS, and the media.

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).