Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization
Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization

Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization

1999 1 Seasons 6 Episodes ⭐ 3.7 Documentary

Ten years in the making, PORNOGRAPHY: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CIVILISATION is a six-part series, which tells for the first time on British television the history of pornography. This landmark series charts the changes in imagery prompted by the advent of new technologies over thousands of years: from ancient times to print, photography, film, video and the Internet.

Ten years in the making, PORNOGRAPHY: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CIVILISATION is a six-part series, which tells for the first time on British television the history of pornography. This landmark series charts the changes in imagery prompted by the advent of new technologies over thousands of years: from ancient times to print, photography, film, video and the Internet.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Road to Ruin

Opens with the science of archaeology. Sexual imagery has been at the heart of culture all over the world, from the Cern

EP 2

The Sacred and Profane

Shows how printing was seen as something that turned hitherto acceptable sexual explicit expression into something far m

EP 3

The Mechanical Eye

Examines the appeal of photographs, their development and their consumers, as well as the evolution of the porn magazine

EP 4

Twentieth Century Foxy

Covers the rise of the porn film industry. But porn on film, and the porn cinema was an interstitial time. At the end of

EP 5

Sex Lives and Videotape

Shows how the advent of video ended pornography's crossover dreams. Video re-made pornography in its own image, replacin

EP 6

Pornotopia

Looks at the new era of digital manipulation and asks how digital technology has affected the pornography that we produc

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