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By Damon Brown
“A stimulating examine of today’s such a lot debatable topics. . . . certain to amaze and titillate someone who’s ever hoisted a videogame controller.”—CNN Tech Correspondent Scott Steinberg
No ebook till Porn & Pong has explored how pornography and games have prompted America’s sexual mores and technological compulsions on a huge scale.
The first Atari platforms and their phallic joysticks started to promote by means of the million besides the increase of the VCR and the fashionable porn undefined. truth television skyrocketed a similar 12 months because the Sims, and the surgically endowed Pamela Anderson used to be basically outshined by means of another lady: Lara Croft.
Porn & Pong’s ebook comes on the time of the discharge of a number of hugely expected adult-oriented video games, together with a brand new rest swimsuit Larry, Tomb Raider, and the sequel to the main arguable game of all time, Grand robbery automobile. writer Damon Brown examines how politics, hidden agendas, and monetary strain impact the debatable paintings different types of gaming and pornography.
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