SEXUAL IMAGES AND SELLING SEX

The power of the Press continued
• It was the struggle between the illicit market
in sexual art and literature and the forces of
censorship that started what might be called
a pornographic subculture that still thrives
today.
• Although modern debates about pornography
tend to focus more on explicit pictures and
movies, it was the erotic novel that first
established pornographic production as a
business in the Western world, provoking a
response from religious and governmental
authorities.