Porn Row

by Jack Weatherford

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877957983
• ISBN13: 9780877957980
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Extremely interesting book - but beware . . .

. . . you'll probably loan it to someone and never get it back.This falls squarely into the 'I'm curious about it but would never admit it' camp. Most people would be extremely curious to take a back of the curtains view of the porn industry. Recently, PBS scored some of its highest ratings ever during a insider's view at the smut film world in a documentary but no one (except me, maybe) would admit to watching it.I highly recommend finding a good used copy of this. Better yet, buy two copies so you can loan one out and keep the other to revisit every once in a while.

fascinating anthropological view of D.C.'s "strip"

Women photographed in pornographic magazines assume the same poses seen in she-baboons in estrus. This and hundreds of other fascinating comparisons make "Porn Row" a must read for the educated potential sex worker or sex-work consumer.How could this text have fallen out of print? Surely a cultural oversight. Undercover as a clerk, Weatherford becomes a Malinowski of a dirty-book store. He non-judgementally analyzes the activities and means of the hustlers and marks he sees and works with, even participating in the culture as a supplier of drug-free urine.I consider myself lucky to have found a copy in my local public library, and hope to see it reissued soon, perhaps with an introduction by Monica Lewinsky. I was hoping to find a copy to give as a christmas present to my cousin the sex worker, who will certainly be able to relate to the anthropological anecdote about the African villiage with thirty-seven married adult residents and eightyfour on-going love affairs, fourteen of which involve one very busy woman who has no husband of her own but supports herself and her children based on gifts from her lovers.