Fleshpot Cinema’s Sexual Myth Makers & Taboo Breakers

Editor Jack Stevenson.

Critical Vision/HeadPress

Tower Books

Jack Stevenson is a brilliant filth scholar.

He's obsessive, funny, and knows more about obscure, dirty movies than anyone alive.

John Waters

Fleshpot is a unique guide to the outside realm of erotic cinema, ranging from general eroticism within mainstream and cult film to explicit adult entertainment, Gay and straight. Fleshpot has been produced as a series of essays, any of which could be read individually. While we get a general overview of the history of erotic cinema, we also get genre essays examining major fields of interest, trends and personalities.

Each of these essays is a window into a forbidden world, ranging from Russ Meyer to the history of Gay adult film. There are also profiles of infamous porn personalities as well as pieces exploring eroticism in mainstream film.

Each chapter has been meticulously researched and is packed with rumors, tales, gossip, history and analysis.

Fleshpot contains a wide range of black and white images most of which have never seen the light of day before, and includes contributions from such “outsider figures” as Kenneth Anger and George Kucha.