Understanding Pornographic Fiction: Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception

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.

• | Author: Charles Nussbaum
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: May 29, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 187 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1349579793
• | ISBN-13: 9781349579792