Understanding Pornographic Fiction: Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception by Charles Nussbaum
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1137556757 | 187 Pages | PDF | 4.0 MB
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1137556757 | 187 Pages | PDF | 4.0 MB
This work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal; and second, that its emergence owes as much to Puritan Protestantism and its inner- or this-worldly asceticism as does the emergence of modern rationalized capitalism.