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Understanding Pornographic Fiction

Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception
By:Charles Nussbaum
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137556752
eText ISBN:9781137556769
Edition:0
Copyright:2015
Format:Reflowable

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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.