For many gay men who came out in the period after the Stonewall riots in New York in 1969, the seventies were a golden age of sexual freedom. The forty years between 19 were among the most tumultuous decades in the history of gay male sexuality. Laura Kipnis, Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America
Pornography is a space in the social imagination as well as a media form. It's an archive of data about our history as a culture and our own individual histories-our formations as selves. But even more than that, it's acutely historical.
