Product Description

The highly anticipated True Porn, an anthology of real life sex stories told by real live cartoonists features the auto-biographical sex stories of Ivan Brunetti, Laurenn McCubbin, Jeffrey Brown, Ariel Schrag and 40 more of today's talents. True Porn is frank, honest and always entertaining. From the excitement of the first time to the despair of the last time, True Porn portrays the highs and lows of our most basic urge. Cover art by James Kochalka (Fancy Froglin's Sexy Forest) and James Sturm (Golem's Mighty Swing).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1339709 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

for fans of indy/ underground and erotic comix!
My friend loaned me this book and I haven't returned it, it's sitting next to my fave chair. . . that's how good it is. I am fixing to buy me a copy of it and the vol 2 as well. Definetely not for people looking for a quick fix/ stroke book. Most of these stories really challenge the preconcieved notions of "porn." Truly awesome in its intelligent, broad look at one of mankind's most primary and fundamental, yet unexplicably (in mainstream US at least) "don't ask, don't tell" activities.

The reason I don't give it 5 stars is because True Porn is not really a good title for it. Erotica is more faithful to the aim and content of the book. It could have been called Everyday Erotica or something. The meaning of the word pornography according to Oxford's is "printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings." Now, the word pornography is etymologically traced to the greek pornographos, (which means to write about prostitutes: porne, prostitute and graphein, to write) this title just hints at something dirty, which is something sex is not. Nor is the book an excuse to merely "stimulate erotic feelings" but rather to stimulate aesthetic, emotional AND erotic feelings. I wish people would just stop being ashamed about or misunderstanding this most wonderful activity.