Tools
The erotic engine
- Author
- Barss, Patchen.
- Title
- The erotic engine / Patchen Barss.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, c2010.
- Description
- 310 p. ; 24 cm.
- Variant title
- Subtitle on jacket : How pornography has powered mass communication, from Gutenberg to Google
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-295) and index.
- Contents
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- Part one: drawing, painting, carving, writing
- The oldest impression
- the "Hottentot Venus" and the history of civilization
- The Virgin and the naughty monkey
- Fleshing the press
- Part two: mechanical reproduction
- Exposure time
- Stag nation
- The format war
- "U" tube
- Erotica online
- Virtual world FAQ
- The games people play
- Part three: the modern pornography industry
- The commercialization of in the internet
- Pornography outstrips the mainstream
- The strange future of mass communication
- Words get in the way
- Out of the MUD
- Emergent sex and non-emergent technology
- The law of unintended consequences
- Down but not out
- A touchy subject.
- Kinsey subjects
- Erotica. Mass media. Popular culture studies. Erotica distribution. Erotica industry. Erotica research.
- ISBN
- 9780385667364 (bound) 0385667361 (bound)