Hotbeds of Licentiousness

Benjamin Halligan is the Director of the Doctoral College of the University of Wolverhampton. His publications include Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film (Berghahn Books, 2016) and the co-edited Politics of the Many: Contemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency (Bloomsbury, 2021).

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: The Soul of Pornography



Part I: The Permissive Society and Its Discontents



Chapter 1. Two Notional Regimes of Permissiveness

Chapter 2. An Anti-Permissive Front



Part II: The Hardcore



Chapter 3. The ‘Connoisseur of Female Beauty’ and the ‘Curve Prospector’: Harrison Marks and Russell Gay

Chapter 4. Erectile and Societal Dysfunctionality: The John Lindsay Loops



Part III: The Softcore



Chapter 5. Derek Ford in Essex

Chapter 6. Tory Erotica: Sexual Fantasies for the Nouveau Riche

Chapter 7. David Hamilton’s Uranian Cinema



Coda: Post-Permissive Pornography



Chapter 8. ‘Fucking Bang Me Like a Slag!’: Men with Men after Thatcher



Conclusion: ‘That’s What the Average Man Wants’



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