[lbo-talk] Theory of Porn

[Michael Dawson -PSU]

> Anyone who reads a good deall of erotic material from _before_ the 19th
> century and then reads the professional pornography produced in
> thousands of volumes in the late 19th century in England, and who still
> thinks that some major change didn't happen . . . doesn't even know the
> meaning of the word "historical."
>
> Carrol

Thinking historically requires keeping the right question in mind, among
other things.  The issue isn't whether a big change happened in modern
times -- who would would deny that an explosion of printing presses would
produce an explosion of porn? -- but whether porn existed before capitalism.
It did.

Meanwhile, where can one buy all of Carrol Cox's books?  She seems to
promise that she's the biggest thing since sliced bread in just about any
area you care to name...