Does the library of congress have pornography that is available to
look at? Not necessarily text about pornography, but actually images
or movies them self. I know they distribute a brail version of playboy
but of course there are no images.

Hi Jakeb1616,

an interesting question! A short answer would be, yes - if you can
call Playboy a pornography...

Libraries in general tend to be impartial and non-censoring. Many of
them, especially research ones, do collect material you could call
"soft pornography" in various formats, including print and movies, and
make it publicly available (with age restrictions). After all, it's a
part of our culture and has some historical and research value. You
won't probably find there any "hardcore", though (but I might be wrong
on this one LOL).

The Library of Congress is no exception. If you'd like to check it out
you can use the library's online public access catalog:

http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First

The easiest way is to search by title - plug in "playboy" and you'll
see that they hold the "real, full-picture" version, too - no need to
study brail ;-) Or try other titles. I'm not an expert on the subject
so can't think of much else than Penthouse and Hustler - but they have
them, too.

More advanced search is by subject but you need to know the right ones
- the best seems to be:

Erotica (the first hit will bring up a list of movies)

and

Erotica--Periodicals

Erotica--Pictorial works seems to work for other libraries but not so
for the Library of Congress.

Also, interestingly, the library doesn't seem to assign any subject
headings to the aforementioned magazines. So they don't censor the
access but don't make it easy neither...

Hope that helps. Cheers

Uko