03594nam 2200709 a 450 991045748630332120200520144314.01-283-21121-197866132112170-8122-0074-810.9783/9780812200744(CKB)2550000000050929(OCoLC)654702914(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491920(SSID)ssj0000543667(PQKBManifestationID)11381920(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543667(PQKBWorkID)10533653(PQKB)10216172(MiAaPQ)EBC3441463(MdBmJHUP)muse3150(DE-B1597)448926(OCoLC)979591225(DE-B1597)9780812200744(Au-PeEL)EBL3441463(CaPaEBR)ebr10491920(CaONFJC)MIL321121(EXLCZ)99255000000005092919980114d1998 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe fantasy factory[electronic resource] an insider's view of the phone sex industry /Amy FlowersPhiladelphia, Pa. University of Pennsylvania Pressc19981 online resource (153 p.) Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-1643-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-139) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Researching the Fantasy Factory -- Chapter 2. Fantasy Girls Are Felt But Never Seen -- Chapter 3. Phone Sex Consumers: Husbands and Friends? -- Chapter 4. The Manufacture of Fantasy -- Chapter 5. The Real Product of Fantasy -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index The Fantasy Factory explores the world of women on the other end of the phone sex lines advertised in magazines like Playboy and Hustler. The author's interviews with these women, as well as her own first-hand experiences as an operator, reveal the complex ways operators and callers negotiate the shifting borders between desire and disgust, fantasy and reality, deception and belief. The Fantasy Factory raises provocative questions about the manufacture of artificial intimacy and the technological mediation of intimacy, as well as about the social construction of sexuality and gender.Flowers discovers that operators—who assume names like Tiffany and Corvette—create a virtual reality in which callers can act out fantasies that operators may find boring, disgusting, or even frightening. She also discovers that even those women who are skilled at keeping their "true self" and their phone sex persona separate find that they have to struggle to protect that self and to maintain the ability to experience real intimacy.Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture.Telephone sexUnited StatesIntimacy (Psychology)Feminist theoryUnited StatesTechnology and civilizationUnited StatesElectronic books.Telephone sexIntimacy (Psychology)Feminist theoryTechnology and civilization306.77Flowers Amy1039318MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457486303321The fantasy factory2461458UNINA