Download or read book Understanding Pornographic Fiction written by Charles Nussbaum and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.