Money-makers and Shadows

Abstract

The preceding pages were not truly about pornography. I do not mean that in any ground-breaking Magritte sense, nor even in the playful Foucauldian repetition of what Magritte meant (Foucault, 1983). All I mean is that pornography was revealed more and more progressively to be a symptom or a communication of a deeper disease. Pornography is a pseudo-problem. All of the accusations laid at the door of pornography are ultimately broad cultural misgivings about our way of life and how we understand others.