Word: smut
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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This year has been a year of hope. Barack Obama was elected on Nov. 4, Roberto Bolaño’s posthumous estate produced another masterpiece, and Britney Spears has managed to climb out of the smut pages and into the Billboard 100 once again. It seems like anything’s possible! But not everyone is bathing in the good vibes, and they deserve to be represented, too. So here’s a look at two films and two books of 2008 that just love to hate. Films “Saw V:” Thomas...
...normal books that people read all the time,” as Duncan described them. “They wrote a 20-page questionnaire, and they took a bunch of quotes out of context, plopped them down, and said ‘would you want your kids reading this smut...
...helped thaw America's once-frigid attitude toward human sexuality. Playboy remains the genre's big kahuna, and its stew of titillating photo spreads, risqué party jokes and, yes, interesting articles was the original recipe for success in the pornographic magazine business. But the strange, seamy history of smut on paper neither began nor ended with Hef's brainchild...
...Gist: Any man who boasts a troika of girlfriends five decades his junior, pops Viagra like Pez and considers smoking jackets formalwear is bound to be divisive. But whether you consider Hugh Hefner a smut-peddler or a "prophet of pop hedonism"-TIME's phrasing in 1967-you can't deny the guy his place in the American canon. And in Mr. Playboy, biographer Steven Watts argues that Hef's influence extends well beyond the bedroom. By framing sex as an All-American aspiration-as worthy a pursuit as good wine or flashy cars-the famous free-love evangelist scrambled...
Furthermore, the new model will be available in at least 75 countries, enabling content providers to reach new mobile porn viewers all around the world. Mark Kirstein, president of Multimedia Intelligence, a mobile-research firm, says the iPhone is like a Trojan horse that lets smut providers cut out the carrier as middleman. "The iPhone becomes a portal where people can get to content directly without worrying about the social mores of the network operator," he says, referring to carriers like Canada's Telus, which canceled an experimental adult-content offer after receiving hundreds of customer complaints. That means better...