For those of us who spend upwards of 14 hours a day looking at porn, how often do we ever step back and ponder what mechanisms drive us on our endless quest for visual and sensual gratification? "The Erotic Eye And Its Nude" is "an inquiry into the vicissitudes of the scopic and the phanic drive" by Belgian philosopher Stefan Beyst. Beyst has deconstructed subjects as varied art and music and artists like Yeats (the poet), Ligeti (the composer), and Goldsworthy (the sculptor). Now he tackles our favorite topic—the semiotics of porn—with dense, intellectual verbosity and a selection of hundreds of erotic images old and new from over 100 different international artists.A. Tolesco

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Previously: Sex On The Brain, Mapping Sex in America, Newbie Nudes, The Bedroom Project, skin/strip, INTIMACY: Human People, Kinsey: Protests and Raves, Obscenity Task Force, Obscenity, Then and Now, War On Pornography, "Perversion For Profit"