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.