福克森(Foxon)表示,《芬妮希爾》(1748年)為「史上第一部英文原創色情散文集,也是第一部使用小說體裁的色情作品」[28]。 它是一本由約翰·克萊蘭德創作,並在英格蘭以《一個愉悅女人的回憶錄》(Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure)的名義首度發行的情色小說[29][30]。該作品歷來飽受爭議及查禁[31]。
性暴露的電影會使當局起訴製片人和發行商。自1920年代開始,這類電影往往是由業餘愛好者非法製作的,這種情況在美法兩國尤其突出。電影的加工和發行都是有風險的,故此這些事務往往都會隱密進行[43][44]。1969年,丹麥成為第一個廢除審查制度的國家,從而使色情製品去刑罪化。此舉令當地對於色情作品的投資和商業生產大幅上升。不過其他國家對於色情作品的限制仍舊維持,使得它們成為該些國家的走私品,並在很多時候需於「櫃枱下」出售,或在會員制的電影俱樂部中放映[43]。儘管如此, 安迪·沃荷於1969年推出的《藍色電影(英語:Blue Movie)》仍是第一部在美國得到廣泛院線發行,擁有露骨性交場面的成人情色電影[4][5][6]。該部作品是色情作品黃金期(英語:Golden Age of Porn)的奠基之作。據沃霍爾介紹,該部電影對《巴黎最後探戈》的拍攝有着重大影響。《巴黎最後探戈》在《藍色電影》推出後的幾年內上映,並由馬龍·白蘭度主演。它是一部在國際上頗具爭議性的情色劇情片[5]。
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MacKinnon, Catharine A.Not a moral issue. Yale Law & Policy Review (Yale Law School). 1983, 2 (2): 321–345 [2019-11-14]. JSTOR 40239168. (原始內容存檔於2019-06-08). Sex forced on real women so that it can be sold at a profit to be forced on other real women; women's bodies trussed and maimed and raped and made into things to be hurt and obtained and accessed, and this presented as the nature of women; the coercion that is visible and the coercion that has become invisible—this and more grounds the feminist concern with pornography|quote=和|postscript=只需其一 (幫助)Pdf. (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
Reprinted as: MacKinnon, Catharine A., Pornography: on morality and politics, MacKinnon, Catharine A. (編), Toward a feminist theory of the state, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press: 195–214, 1989, ISBN 9780674896468.
Also reprinted as: MacKinnon, Catharine A., Not a moral issue, MacKinnon, Catharine A. (編), Feminism unmodified: discourses on life and law, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press: 146–162, 1987, ISBN 9780674298743. Preview. (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
Jeffries, Stuart. Are women human? (Interview with Catharine MacKinnon). The Guardian (London). 2006-04-12 [2016-07-29]. (原始內容存檔於2013-07-26). Catharine MacKinnon argues that: "Pornography affects people's belief in rape myths. So for example if a woman says 'I didn't consent' and people have been viewing pornography, they believe rape myths and believe the woman did consent no matter what she said. That when she said no, she meant yes. When she said she didn't want to, that meant more beer. When she said she would prefer to go home, that means she's a lesbian who needs to be given a good corrective experience. Pornography promotes these rape myths and desensitises people to violence against women so that you need more violence to become sexually aroused if you're a pornography consumer. This is very well documented."
Commella, Lynn, From text to context, Taormino, Tristan; Parreñas Shimizu, Celine; Penley, Constance; Miller-Young, Mireille (編), The feminist porn book: the politics of producing pleasure, New York, New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York: 79–96, 2013, ISBN 9781558618190.