List of illustrations -- Preface: a promiscuous reader -- Introduction: Kusama's boat -- Moby Dick's boring parts: pornography's allegorical hothouse -- Sex, sodomy, and scandal: art and undress in the work of Thomas Eakins -- Tricks of the trade: pop art and the rhetoric of prostitution -- "I must be boring someone": women in Warhol's films -- The effect of intimacy: Tracey Emin's bad sex aesthetics -- White sex: Vaginal Davis does Vanessa Beecroft -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
