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Lee Siegel on porn and money

2001-07-13 23:56:59+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Seth passed along this interesting essay by Lee Siegel on how money has overshadowed sex in writing about pornography, and how journalists, in using money as the titillating factor in stories where they used to use sex are straying further from the real issues of power and manipulation that exist in semi-legal systems.

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