The Mystery of Sex: Learn about Mysterious Businesses in Adult Entertainment

How should pornography be interpreted as part of our society and does its reality challenge our beliefs and expectations? Aren't all porn girls and the business they represent just an extension of "what may stir fear or revulsion in one person may be the hottest thing ever to the next?"

Taking the reader to the industry's major trade show in Las Vegas and to film sets in Porn Valley, Tibbals becomes a tour guide for a little-understood universe that can't escape the myths...
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How should pornography be interpreted as part of our society and does its reality challenge our beliefs and expectations? Aren't all porn girls and the business they represent just an extension of "what may stir fear or revulsion in one person may be the hottest thing ever to the next?"

Taking the reader to the industry's major trade show in Las Vegas and to film sets in Porn Valley, Tibbals becomes a tour guide for a little-understood universe that can't escape the myths that swirl about it. In discussing the cultural significance of porn, Tibballs devotes time to "pegging," queer porn, and "Trannies" as an adult film genre. What's more, there is something in the pages of Exposure for everybody be it on the business side of the industry (product piracy is huge . . . and where does the film music come from?) to the feminist interpretation of adult content. Traditional anti-porn feminism is referenced specifically looking at the government's war on porn in the 1980s.

This book shares her adventures and observations - often hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and always enlightening - in order to give us a nuanced look at a community that's simultaneously influential and reviled, powerful and stigmatized. The adult industry is nothing like you'd expect. It's a world that deals in sex and is shrouded in mystery but is ultimately no different from any other.