THE BIG BOOK OF PORN: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Movies by Seth Grahame-Smith

PUBLISHER: Quirk, 11/2005
GENRE: Nonfiction/Sexuality/Film
AUTHOR SITE: link
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MY GRADE: B-

FROM PUBLISHER: An XXX Rated Celebration of Adult Movies. According to film historians, the first motion picture was screened in December 1895. And the first dirty motion picture was screened just a few months later.

Adult movies are nearly as old as cinema itself. "The Big Book of Porn" celebrates this controversial art form in all its timeless glory from the stag films of the 1920s and the Super 8 reels of the 50s to the VHS boom of the 80s and the interactive DVDs of Tomorrow.

Chapters include:

Know Your Classics: The twenty-five most important adult films of all time, including Debbie Does Dallas, Deep Throat, and an X-rated musical version of Alice in Wonderland.
Great Moments in Porn History: From the first on-screen kiss to the invention of the silicone breast implant, these are major events that defined modern-day adult films.

The Pantheon of Porn: These mini-bios of mega-stars like Seka, Linda Lovelace, and Marilyn Chambers are filled with surprising trivia.

It s A Porn World, After All: We travel around the world from Australia and Canada to Germany and Japan to watch the best of international porn.

Make Your Own Porno: All you need is a video camera, a willing partner, and these simple pointers ( Tell a story, Start with a bang, Parody a real film title whenever possible ).

And that s just the beginning. You ll also find a glossary of unfamiliar terms, a catalog of favorite porn genres, tons of classic stills and posters, interviews with porn pioneers, the 300 goofiest porn titles of all time (Edward Penishands, Juranal Park, Oklahomo!), and much, much more."



MY THOUGHTS: This was pretty entertaining but needed more information on the porn industry and less on unimportant things like how to make your own porn, how to clean a disc properly, and where to hide discs around the house, like behind a picture frame. It wasn't necessary either to list places to buy porn or adult toys because anyone can Google that and find countless places to buy stuff. I think all the afore mentioned stuff was done to fill space. The author's very funny but I wish this had been a little more serious.

There are about eighteen pages at the beginning that give a very brief history of porn, beginning with the creation of motion pictures, and goes in chronological order. That section is seriously lacking.

The book is a large and heavy paperback, almost two pounds, that's in full color with glossy pages and a whole lotta photos with minimal nudity.

I liked the author listing his top twenty favorite classic (pre-1984) porn films. I've only seen five:

01. The Opening of Misty Beethoven
02. The Dancers
03. Taboo
04. Talk Dirty to Me
05. The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue
06. Insatiable
07. Debbie Does Dallas
08. Alice in Wonderland
09. Sex World
10. Deep Throat
11. Blonde Ambition
12. Babylon Pink
13. Wanda Whips Wall Street
14. Every Inch a Lady
15. Behind the Green Door
16. Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here
17. Female Athletes
18. Bite
19. Tigresses...And Other Man-Eaters
20. Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle

I received this from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.