Watching Porn: And Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist
“Lynsey G. is an intrepid explorer, boldly going where few reporters have gone with such a critical eye: deep inside the real world of commercial sex.” —Tina Horn, host of the Why Are People Into That?! podcast

Lynsey G. never imagined that she would ever work in porn, but at twenty-four years old, with a degree in English literature and an empty bank account, she found herself reviewing the film East Coast ASSault for an adult magazine in New York City. One interview later and it was official: she was a porn journalist. The job was supposed to be temporary—just a paycheck until she could spark her legitimate writing career—but she loved it and spent nearly a decade describing the nuances of money shots and the effectiveness of sex toys. As both a porn consumer and a porn critic, she was not quite an insider, not quite an outsider, but came to know the industry intimately.

She found it so fascinating that she co-founded WHACK! Magazine. Finally, she had a platform to voice her thoughts and observations of the adult film world, as well as educate the rest of us about what really goes on behind the scenes. Eventually, Lynsey was thrust back into the “real” world, but not before realizing that one of the most diverse and nebulous—and profitable—industries on the planet isn’t so quite as different from the rest of the world as she thought.

Tantalizing, eye-opening, and witty, Watching Porn is a provocative book about an average girl’s foray into the porn industry and the people who make it what it is, both in front of and behind the camera.

“Marvelous.” —The New York Times Book Review
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Watching Porn: And Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist
“Lynsey G. is an intrepid explorer, boldly going where few reporters have gone with such a critical eye: deep inside the real world of commercial sex.” —Tina Horn, host of the Why Are People Into That?! podcast

Lynsey G. never imagined that she would ever work in porn, but at twenty-four years old, with a degree in English literature and an empty bank account, she found herself reviewing the film East Coast ASSault for an adult magazine in New York City. One interview later and it was official: she was a porn journalist. The job was supposed to be temporary—just a paycheck until she could spark her legitimate writing career—but she loved it and spent nearly a decade describing the nuances of money shots and the effectiveness of sex toys. As both a porn consumer and a porn critic, she was not quite an insider, not quite an outsider, but came to know the industry intimately.

She found it so fascinating that she co-founded WHACK! Magazine. Finally, she had a platform to voice her thoughts and observations of the adult film world, as well as educate the rest of us about what really goes on behind the scenes. Eventually, Lynsey was thrust back into the “real” world, but not before realizing that one of the most diverse and nebulous—and profitable—industries on the planet isn’t so quite as different from the rest of the world as she thought.

Tantalizing, eye-opening, and witty, Watching Porn is a provocative book about an average girl’s foray into the porn industry and the people who make it what it is, both in front of and behind the camera.

“Marvelous.” —The New York Times Book Review
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Watching Porn: And Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist

Watching Porn: And Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist

by Lynsey G
Watching Porn: And Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist

Watching Porn: And Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist

by Lynsey G

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“Lynsey G. is an intrepid explorer, boldly going where few reporters have gone with such a critical eye: deep inside the real world of commercial sex.” —Tina Horn, host of the Why Are People Into That?! podcast

Lynsey G. never imagined that she would ever work in porn, but at twenty-four years old, with a degree in English literature and an empty bank account, she found herself reviewing the film East Coast ASSault for an adult magazine in New York City. One interview later and it was official: she was a porn journalist. The job was supposed to be temporary—just a paycheck until she could spark her legitimate writing career—but she loved it and spent nearly a decade describing the nuances of money shots and the effectiveness of sex toys. As both a porn consumer and a porn critic, she was not quite an insider, not quite an outsider, but came to know the industry intimately.

She found it so fascinating that she co-founded WHACK! Magazine. Finally, she had a platform to voice her thoughts and observations of the adult film world, as well as educate the rest of us about what really goes on behind the scenes. Eventually, Lynsey was thrust back into the “real” world, but not before realizing that one of the most diverse and nebulous—and profitable—industries on the planet isn’t so quite as different from the rest of the world as she thought.

Tantalizing, eye-opening, and witty, Watching Porn is a provocative book about an average girl’s foray into the porn industry and the people who make it what it is, both in front of and behind the camera.

“Marvelous.” —The New York Times Book Review

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781468315325
Publisher: ABRAMS, Inc.
Publication date: 09/01/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 351
Sales rank: 186,541
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Lynsey G. is a writerly type who has focused primarily on the intersection of pornography, feminism, and sexuality for the past decade as a reviewer, interviewer, critic, documentary filmmaker, and blogger. Her work across multiple genres and areas of interest has appeared in places like Refinery29, BUST, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Bitch magazine, MEL Magazine, Luna Luna Magazine, The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, Stirring: A Literary Collection, and others. After many years of doing battle with the New York City subway system, she now resides in Missoula, Montana. Follow Lynsey G. writer on Facebook and @MissLagsalot on Twitter.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Chapter 1 Before Porn 13

Chapter 2 Getting In 23

Chapter 3 East Coast Assault 29

Chapter 4 The Early Days 41

Chapter 5 The Backward Slide 49

Chapter 6 Whack! Magazine 59

Chapter 7 The Conflicted Existence of the Female Porn Writer 73

Chapter 8 In the Flesh 81

Chapter 9 The Guys 91

Chapter 10 Vegas and the Sex Toy Revelation 103

Chapter 11 Creepazoid Territory 113

Chapter 12 The New Girl 123

Chapter 13 Editor in Chief 139

Chapter 14 Racism in the Industry 155

Chapter 15 Other "Isms" 171

Chapter 16 The Gay Divide & the Condom Wars 185

Chapter 17 The Feminist Porn Awards 205

Chapter 18 Making It in Miami 219

Chapter 19 Losing It to the Tubes 227

Chapter 20 Porn, Art, and Obscenity 249

Chapter 21 Winner 266

A Glossary of Porn Terminology 283

Recommended Viewing for the Feminist-Minded 289

Further Reading List for the Curious 293

Acknowledgments 295

Bibliography 299

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