The Erotic Engine

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Pornography: The force for change that has been written out of the history of world culture

• The Erotic Engine available on June 19 2018 from VitalSource for itemprop="offers" target="_external" title="" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">13.99
  
• ISBN bar code 9780307375995 ξ2 registered June 19 2018
  
• ISBN bar code 9780307375995 ξ1 registered May 11 2018
  
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From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the cutting edge in adopting and exploiting new developments in mass communication. And in so doing, it has helped to promote and propel those developments in ways that are rarely acknowledged. Without pornography, the internet would not have grown so quickly. The e-commerce payment systems that are now commonplace would be at a far more primitive stage security and usability. Without video streaming software developed for pornography sites, CNN would be struggling to deliver news clips. Without advertising from sex sites, Google could not have afforded YouTube. This smart, witty and well-researched history shows how a vast secret trade has bankrolled and shaped mainstream culture and its machines. From the Hardcover edition.

^ (2014). The Erotic Engine, Doubleday Canada. ISBN 9780307375995 (revised May 2018)
^ The Erotic Engine VitalSource. ISBN 9780307375995 (revised Jun 2018)