LEADER 03594nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910457486303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21121-1 010 $a9786613211217 010 $a0-8122-0074-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200744 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050929 035 $a(OCoLC)654702914 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491920 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000543667 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11381920 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543667 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10533653 035 $a(PQKB)10216172 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441463 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3150 035 $a(DE-B1597)448926 035 $a(OCoLC)979591225 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200744 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441463 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491920 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321121 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050929 100 $a19980114d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe fantasy factory$b[electronic resource] $ean insider's view of the phone sex industry /$fAmy Flowers 210 $aPhiladelphia, Pa. $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (153 p.) 225 1 $aFeminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1643-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [125]-139) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. Researching the Fantasy Factory -- $tChapter 2. Fantasy Girls Are Felt But Never Seen -- $tChapter 3. Phone Sex Consumers: Husbands and Friends? -- $tChapter 4. The Manufacture of Fantasy -- $tChapter 5. The Real Product of Fantasy -- $tBibliography -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aThe Fantasy Factory explores the world of women on the other end of the phone sex lines advertised in magazines like Playboy and Hustler. The author's interviews with these women, as well as her own first-hand experiences as an operator, reveal the complex ways operators and callers negotiate the shifting borders between desire and disgust, fantasy and reality, deception and belief. The Fantasy Factory raises provocative questions about the manufacture of artificial intimacy and the technological mediation of intimacy, as well as about the social construction of sexuality and gender.Flowers discovers that operators?who assume names like Tiffany and Corvette?create a virtual reality in which callers can act out fantasies that operators may find boring, disgusting, or even frightening. She also discovers that even those women who are skilled at keeping their "true self" and their phone sex persona separate find that they have to struggle to protect that self and to maintain the ability to experience real intimacy. 410 0$aFeminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture. 606 $aTelephone sex$zUnited States 606 $aIntimacy (Psychology) 606 $aFeminist theory$zUnited States 606 $aTechnology and civilization$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTelephone sex 615 0$aIntimacy (Psychology) 615 0$aFeminist theory 615 0$aTechnology and civilization 676 $a306.77 700 $aFlowers$b Amy$01039318 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457486303321 996 $aThe fantasy factory$92461458 997 $aUNINA