Ripsaw News, 3/12/02
Book Description
When one thinks of the earliest years of the 20th Century in America, ribald erotica is not the first thing that springs to mind. However, if a gentleman lived in a major city like New York, Chicago or New Orleans, he had more sexual entertainment available to him than his descendants do today - brothels and prostitutes where everywhere and advertised openly. For consumers outside of sophisticated metropolises, the art of photography was put to use by enterprising photographers and models more than willing to bare it all and lasciviously flaunt it in this new medium. Film inevitably followed, and became the perfect vehicle for capturing the raw nuances of every sexual activity under the sun, or the studio lights, as it were.
The Christy Report examines, decade by decade, the advances and evolution of this underground art form - the changes in erotic tastes over the years from now quaintly soft-core cheesecake, through the fetish-y 50s, the anything goes au natural 60s; the hard-core, so called “golden age” of porn in the 70s and 80s; up to the ubër gods and goddesses of idealized 90s porn sporting the biggest, most perfect breasts and gigantically unflagging erections ever-ready for the money shot. Consistent throughout are explicitly hot shots of bare-naked ladies and rampant men - The Christy Report, though certainly very educational for the scholar of porn, is also a very hot book, crammed with nearly 1000 arousing images perfect for a different kind of study session!
