<DIV>In a book that completely changes the terms of the pornography debate, Laura Kipnis challenges the position that porn perpetuates misogyny and sex crimes. First published in 1996, <I>Bound and Gagged</I> opens with the chilling case of Daniel DePew, a man convicted&mdash;in the first computer bulletin board entrapment case&mdash;of conspiring to make a snuff film and sentenced to thirty-three years in prison for merely trading kinky fantasies with two undercover cops.<BR>Using this textbook example of social hysteria as a springboard, Kipnis argues that criminalizing fantasy&mdash;even perverse and unacceptable fantasy&mdash;has dire social consequences. Exploring the entire spectrum of pornography, she declares that porn isn&rsquo;t just about gender and that fantasy doesn&rsquo;t necessarily constitute intent. She reveals Larry Flynt&rsquo;s <I>Hustler</I> to be one of the most politically outspoken and class-antagonistic magazine in the country and shows how fetishes such as fat admiration challenge our aesthetic prejudices and socially sanctioned disgust. Kipnis demonstrates that the porn industry&mdash;whose multibillion-dollar annual revenues rival those of the three major television networks combined&mdash;know precisely how to tap into our culture&rsquo;s deepest anxieties and desires, and that this knowledge, more than all the naked bodies, is what guarantees its vast popularity.<BR><I>Bound and Gagged</I> challenges our most basic assumptions about America&rsquo;s relationship with pornography and questions what the calls to eliminate it are really attempting to protect.</div>