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This essay explores how black feminists working in the area of sexuality and visual culture necessarily face serious questions about what it means to present images of black women's sexuality. Examining 1980s porn star Jeannie Pepper's career, the author argues that black women's representations in pornography reveal the complex politics of black women's sexual politics and feminism, and the stakes of respectability and objectification. Looking at the ways in which Pepper understood her work, and her pride in her performances—including a 1986 tour of Europe that was captured for a Players Magazine photo spread—the author suggests that black porn stars often embrace a politics of illicit eroticism in which they mobilize black sexual subjectivity for their own ambitions and needs, pushing against the prevailing stigmas that render them illicit objects of desire.

"This one-of-a-kind book shares intimate personal stories of porn performers "coming out" to family, friends, partners, lovers, and community. The contributors represent a wide range of races, ethnicities, and genders. They include Joanna Angel, Annie Sprinkle, Betty Blac, Nina Hartley, Candida Royalle, Conner Habib, Dale Cooper, Christopher Zeischegg, Cindy Gallop, Drew DeVeaux, Erika Lust, Gala Vanting, Casey Calvert, Lorelei Lee, Stoya, Ignacio Rivera AKA Papi; Coxxx, and many others. Jiz Lee is a genderqueer performer who, fascinated by the radical potential of sex, love, and art, has worked in over two hundred projects within indie, queer, and mainstream adult genres, written on gender and porn in The Feminist Porn Book, and taught queer sex workshops. "--

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Pornography, Technology, Archive -- PART I Pedagogical Archives -- 1 Pornography, Porno, Porn: Thoughts on a Weedy Field -- 2 Pornography as a Utilitarian Social Structure: A Conversation with Frances Ferguson -- 3 The Opening of Kobena, Cecilia, Robert, Linda, Juana, Hoang, and the Others -- 4 Pornography in the Library -- PART II Historical Archives -- 5 "A Quantity of Offensive Matter": Private Cases in Public Places -- 6 Up from Underground -- 7 "A Few Drops of Thick, White, Viscid Sperm": Teleny and the Defense of the Phallus -- PART III Image Archives -- 8 Art and Pornography: At the Limit of Action -- 9 Big Black Beauty: Drawing and Naming the Black Male Figure in Superhero and Gay Porn Comics -- 10 Gay Sunshine, Pornopoetic Collage, and Queer Archive -- 11 This Is What Porn Can Be Like! A Conversation with Shine Louise Houston -- PART IV Rough Archives -- 12 Snuff and Nonsense: The Discursive Life of a Phantasmatic Archive -- 13 Rough Sex -- 14 "It's Not Really Porn": Insex and the Revolution in Technological Interactivity -- PART V Transnational Archives -- 15 Porno Rícans at the Borders of Empire -- 16 Butts, Bundas, Bottoms, Ends: Tracing the Legacy of the Pornochanchada in A b . . . profunda -- 17 Pornographic Faith: Two Sources of Naked Sense at the Limits of Belief and Humiliation -- 18 Parody of War: Pleasure at the Limits of Pornography -- PART VI Archives of Excess -- 19 Fantasy Uncut: Foreskin Fetishism and the Morphology of Desire -- 20 Stadler's Boys; or, The Fictions of Child Pornography -- 21 Stumped -- APPENDIX Clandestine Catalogs: A Bibliography of Porn Research Collections -- FILMOGRAPHY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX