What Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on
forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its
nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s
paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these
texts were edited across time to become what we think pornography
is—a genre focused primarily on sex. Originally, they were far
more variable, joining speculative philosophy and feminist theory
to sexual description. Lubey's readings show that pornography
always had a social consciousness—that it knew, long before
anti-pornography feminists said it, that women and nonbinary people
are disadvantaged by a society that grants sexual privilege to men.
Rather than glorify this inequity, Lubey argues, the genre's
central task has historically been to expose its artifice and
envision social reform. Centering women's bodies, pornography
refuses to divert its focus from genital action, forcing readers to
connect sex with its social outcomes. Lubey offers a surprising
take on a deeply misunderstood cultural form: pornography
transforms sexual description into feminist commentary, revealing
the genre's deep knowledge of how social inequities are perpetuated
as well as its plans for how to rectify them.
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