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				Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization			


			

				
Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization


				

					3.7											
							IMDb tt0498445
						
										1999										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.

				

									

						
Cast

						

															

																		Marc Warren
								

															

																		Henri Pachard
								

															

																		Douglas Rushkoff
								

															

																		Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
								

													

					

							

		


					

				

	

		
Episodes							6
					

			


	

				
			

									
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				The Road to Ruin
				1h 0m				Opens with the science of archaeology. Sexual imagery has been at the heart of culture all over the…			

		
				
			

									
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				The Sacred and Profane
				1h 0m				Shows how printing was seen as something that turned hitherto acceptable sexual explicit expression into something far more…			

		
				
			

									
								3
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				The Mechanical Eye
				1h 0m				Examines the appeal of photographs, their development and their consumers, as well as the evolution of the porn…			

		
				
			

									
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				Twentieth Century Foxy
				1h 0m				Covers the rise of the porn film industry. But porn on film, and the porn cinema was an…			

		
				
			

									
								5
								
			

			

				Sex Lives and Videotape
				1h 0m				Shows how the advent of video ended pornography's crossover dreams. Video re-made pornography in its own image, replacing…			

		
				
			

									
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				Pornotopia
				1h 0m				Looks at the new era of digital manipulation and asks how digital technology has affected the pornography that…			

		
			



			

		
		

			

	
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