
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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Air Date: 1999-10-14
Opens with the science of archaeology. Sexual imagery has been at the heart of culture all over the world, from the C...
Air Date: 1999-10-21
Shows how printing was seen as something that turned hitherto acceptable sexual explicit expression into something fa...
Air Date: 1999-10-28
Examines the appeal of photographs, their development and their consumers, as well as the evolution of the porn magaz...
Air Date: 1999-11-04
Covers the rise of the porn film industry. But porn on film, and the porn cinema was an interstitial time. At the end...
Air Date: 1999-11-11
Shows how the advent of video ended pornography's crossover dreams. Video re-made pornography in its own image, repla...
Air Date: 1999-11-18
Looks at the new era of digital manipulation and asks how digital technology has affected the pornography that we pro...