| The Fantasy Factory: An Insider''s View of the Phone Sex Industry Subjects: Telephone sex -- United States; Intimacy (Psychology); Feminist theory -- United States; Technology and civilization -- United States; 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. Amy Flowers is an independent scholar. |