Introduction: Porn studies: Proliferating pornographies on/scene Part 1 Contemporary pornographies How to do things with The Starr Report: Pornography, performance and the President's penis; Sex in the suburban: Porn, home movies and the "live action" performance of love; Office sluts and rebel flowers: The pleasures of Japanese pornographic comics for women; Going online: Consuming pornography in the digital era Part 2 Gay, lesbian and homosocial pornographies Homosociality in the classical American stag film: Off-screen, on-screen; The cultural-aesthetic specificities of all-male moving-image pornography; What do you call a lesbian with long fingers? The development of lesbian and dyke pornography; The gay sex clerk: Chuck Vincent's straight pornography Part 3 Pornography, race and class The resurrection of Brandon Lee: The making of a gay Asian American porn star; Skin flicks on the racial border: pornography, exploitation and inter-racial lust; Crackers and whackers: The white trashing of porn Part 4 Soft core, hard core and the pornographic sublime Pin-up: The American secret weapon in World War II; Gauging a revolution: 16mm film and the rise of the pornographic feature; Video pornography, visual pleasure and the return of the sublime Part 5 Pornography and/as avant-garde Andy Warhol's Blow Job and the miscarriage of pornography; Unbracketing motion study: Scot Stark's Noema