Profile

How, when, and where adult media has been made, played, and regulated is of particular interest to me, and the goal of my work is to normalize its study like any other form of media. My book Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video (2016) explores the history of adult video in North America and argues that it is a key part of the broader home video revolution in the 1970s and 1980s that changed how we understand media and culture. I am currently working on Pron 1.0, a new book that will trace the pre-history of adult material online, leading to the ways in which we understand the internet today. I am also interested in censorship, media regulation, exhibition and movie theaters, and film and media histories of all kinds.