[lbo-talk] Boston Globe: "Pornification of America"

[Doug Henwood]

B. wrote:


>Even cooking shows on the Food Network -- the Food
>Network! -- contain distinct parallels with the
>cinematography, dialogue, and body language of
>pornography, according to an article wryly headlined
>''Debbie Does Salad" in the October issue of Harper's
>magazine.

Some 20 years ago Alexander Cockburn wrote about "gastro-porn."

Doug