Pornography: The Secret History of Civilisation - Season 1

Pornography: The Secret History of Civilisation - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes6
DatesOct 14, 1999 - Nov 18, 1999

Episodes

The Road to Ruin: Antiquity
Season 1Episode 160 min

The Road to Ruin: Antiquity

Opens with the science of archaeology. Sexual imagery has been at the heart of culture all over the world, from the Cerne Abbas man to the painted walls of Pompeii, from the carvings of Bourges Cathedral to the obscene pamphlets of the French Revolution.
Oct 14, 1999
The Sacred and Profane: The Printing Press
Season 1Episode 260 min

The Sacred and Profane: The Printing Press

Shows how printing was seen as something that turned hitherto acceptable sexual explicit expression into something far more dangerous. Indeed pornography was instrumental in fermenting the French Revolution, with shockingly explicit sexual satire directed at the monarchy. Photography was the greatest leap forward ever in the history of pornography. In the nineteenth century, to ask where pornographic photographs were sold is like asking where you can buy drugs today.
Oct 21, 1999
The Mechanical Eye: The Photograph
Season 1Episode 360 min

The Mechanical Eye: The Photograph

Examines the appeal of photographs, their development and their consumers, as well as the evolution of the porn magazine. This film also covers the birth of the mail order porn dealer; heralding arguments which have parallels today with debates on internet pornography.
Oct 28, 1999
Twentieth Century Foxy: Film
Season 1Episode 460 min

Twentieth Century Foxy: Film

Covers the rise of the porn film industry. But porn on film, and the porn cinema was an interstitial time. At the end of the 70s the new vehicle for porn was video.
Nov 4, 1999
Sex Lives and Videotape: Video
Season 1Episode 560 min

Sex Lives and Videotape: Video

Shows how the advent of video ended pornography's crossover dreams. Video re-made pornography in its own image, replacing the glamour and fantasy of the movies with a real documentary style. The most significant contribution of video was that it turned consumers into producers; the audience picked up cameras and started recording their sex lives on videotape!
Nov 11, 1999
Pornotopia: Digital
Season 1Episode 660 min

Pornotopia: Digital

Looks at the new era of digital manipulation and asks how digital technology has affected the pornography that we produce, and the way we consume it. We talk to people who say that the Internet has dealt the biggest blow yet to the establishment. Pornography in physical forms - books, magazines, and videos - could always be seized and destroyed, but on the Net, pornography has shed its physical form and gone digital.
Nov 18, 1999

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