photographs by Larry Sultan

It’s a Porn World After All

Commercial concupiscence consumes global culture

by Charles Foran

photographs by Larry Sultan

From the March 2006 issue of The Walrus


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books discussed in this essay:

Female Chauvinist Pigs:
Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
by Ariel Levy
Free Press, 2005
224 pp., $35

Pornified: How Pornography
Is Transforming Our Lives,
Our Relationships, and Our Families
by Pamela Paul
Times Books, 2005
304 pp., $34

Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
McClelland & Stewart, 2003
378 pp., $38

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