"This wide-ranging collection of essays is based on papers delivered at a world conference on pornography held in Los Angeles. Representatives of the legal and academic communities, including many internationally renowned scholars and First Amendment lawyers and members of the adult entertainment industry join to discuss the effects of pornography on its audience: censorship; gay and child pornography; phone sex; feminism and sexuality; erotic film and video as a genre; the range and history, from classical antiquity to the present, of pornography in literature and the plastic arts; and related topics. "--BOOK JACKET.