Friday, June 15, 2012

Book porn

  • No one could say the Heathman Hotel in Portland is run by people who are blind to opportunity. The hotel, featured in the popular erotic novel "50 Shades of Grey," is now offering special packages for fans of the book.
  • (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
  • A recent article by Dr. Phillip Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan promoting their book "The Demise of Guys," argues that video games and porn (which are the same thing) are responsible for the end of masculinity and, by extension, humanity.
  • (Forbes)
  • "It's really an unfiltered, uncritical record of the state of human culture in 2012…I would estimate about half of the book is revolting medical photos, porn, racism or bad cartoons.
  • (Mashable)
  • an erotic book penned by EL James, has taken the world by storm, provoking a boom in the sex toys industry which ultimately, has become less of a taboo subject across the world, particularly in the US and UK.
  • (Marketwatch)
  • So whats this got to do with Wall Street? He outlines it all in his book, Porn for Bankers. The banking industrys business model is changing too, he says.
  • (The Business Insider)
  • Mr. Grahame-Smith's first book was an illustrated encyclopedia called "The Big Book of Porn." A few years later, he published the best-selling "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," in which Mr. Darcy delights in vanquishing the undead.
  • (New York Times)
  • For years the porn industry was dominated by an anarchic anything-goes The scenes could be hard to watch, as I discovered for myself when I visited sets for a book I was writing in 2004.
  • (The Guardian)
  • Daniel Schindler, a co-founder of Donuts, says his company intends to win them all, from ".baby" and ".book" to ".tech" and ".vote but to make sure their names didn't get connected to porn. "That was just one.
  • (Wired News)
  • The trilogy's ebooks and novels, which rocketed to the top of the  New York Times'  bestseller's list–and have stayed there for over three months–brought BDSM to the MSM and ushered in the odious "mommy porn" genre.
  • (Macleans)

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