THE FANTASY MACHINE

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Oldest Vice
2. Chapter Two - The First Visual Drug
3. Chapter Three - Playboy and the Polished Lie
4. Chapter Four - VHS and the Home Theater of Sin
5. Chapter Five - The Dot-Com Orgy
6. Chapter Six - The Tab That Never Closes
7. Chapter Seven - Rise of the Algorithms
8. Chapter Eight - OnlyFans and the Cult of Me
9. Chapter Nine - Boys Who Can’t Get Hard
10. Chapter Ten - Girls Who Think They’re the Product
11. Chapter Eleven - Love Is Not a Category
12. Chapter Twelve - The Shame Loop
13. Chapter Thirteen - Quitting the Fantasy
14. Chapter Fourteen - Getting Real Again
15. Chapter Fifteen - You Were the Star All Along

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Oldest Vice PORN DIDN’T START with the internet. It didn’t start with magazines either. It started with us just being alive. Desire isn’t a glitch. It’s built in. And as soon as humans figured out how to make anything, we turned it into a mirror for that hunger. Some of the oldest objects we’ve ever dug out of the ground are little stone figures with no faces, no feet, and exaggerated breasts and hips. The most famous is the Venus of Willendorf, carved over 25,000 years ago. Nobody knows exactly what she meant, but it’s pretty clear what she wasn’t. She wasn’t modest. She wasn’t hidden. She wasn’t ashamed. And she wasn’t alone. There were hundreds like her, scattered across...