Sublime

Do you have any idea how many movies, novels, and poems you have consumed over the years, and how these artifacts have shaped and sharpened your idea of love? Romantic comedies are to love as porn is to sex and Rambo is to war.

“There has never been anything like this before in the history of the human race,” a New York Times writer mused in 1925. “The motion picture is the school, the diversion, perhaps even the church of the future.”

ahistorical approach risks the danger of "rendering historical sexual forms as either universal or completely bound by and to their historical moment.

The value of pornographic artifacts in Web 2.0 sites like XTube is thereby determined by factors not wholly tied to monetization.

Porn reflects transformations in digital media technologies and in how we understand and employ the sexually expressed and expressive body.

Howard K. Smith, who fled Nazi Germany on the last train from Berlin before Hitler declared war on the United States in 1941; James Cameron, whose iconic 1946 report from the Bikini atom tests was perhaps the most literary and philosophical article ever published in a newspaper.

Why is all the attention going toward the De Niro charm as a displaced country boy who is out of his depth, unless the authors are obsessed by Industry staples?