Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography (Hardcover)

Preface vii
1 Introduction: Carnal Appeal 1
2 Bad Taste, Miasmic Forces, and the Ubiquity of Online Porn 31
3 Amateur Wives and the Attraction of Authenticity 71
4 The Literal and the Hyperbolic: Mapping the Modalities of Online Porn 115
5 Visual Pleasures: From Gaze to Grab and Resonance 165
6 Absolutely Disgusting: Shock Sites, Extremity, and the Forbidden Fruit 207
7 Conclusions: The Tactile Grab of Online Pornography 251
Notes 263
References 279
Index 305