Porn

Resumen del libro

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for understanding, she spent a year initiating intimate conversations with nineteen acquaintances of a range of ages, genders and sexualities about everything and anything related to porn: watching habits, emotions and feelings of guilt, embarrassment, disgust and shame, fantasy and desire. Soon, unfolding before her, was exactly the book that she had been longing to encounter not a traditional history, but the raw, honest truth about what we aren't saying.

A landmark work of oral history written in the spirit of Nell Dunn, Porn is a thrilling, thought-provoking, revelatory, revealing, joyfully informative and informal exploration of a subject that has always retained an element of the taboo.

Biografía del autor

Polly Barton (1984) es una escritora y traductora literaria británica. Ha traducido al inglés a varias de las autoras japonesas más destacadas del panorama actual, como Aoko Matsuda, Kikuko Tsumura o Tomoka Shibasaki. En 2019 ganó el premio de ensayo de la editorial Fitzcarraldo por x{0026}lt;i Fifty Sounds,x{0026}lt;/i ópera prima con la que fue también finalista, en 2022, del premio Edward Stanford de escritura de viajes y del premio Ondaatje de la Royal Society of Literature.