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Review of Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age
Everything you ever wanted to know about
sex . . . and business? In the scholarly tome
Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age
(Routledge, $27.50), Frederick S. Lane III examines the XXX-rated
successes of the Internet, and recounts how technological advances
of the past 150-odd years have returned sex as commodity to its
previous heyday of bawdy Greek and Roman times. Lane likens the
Internet to the California Gold Rush, and though not every porn
forty-niner is hitting gold, those who are prove to be shrewd
businesspeople. Their ingenious and controversial methods in this
$1 billion industry make for a fascinating read.