She has gone through the standard porn-and-prostitution training ground of rape, like most of the women in these "industries". But Palahniuk goes where Amis couldn't: he peers into Cassie's mind. The porn queen wants to be "fucked to death", for reasons that gradually become clear. In the early chapters, it seems like Cassie Wright is going to be a reincarnation of Nicola Six, the misogynist wet-dream at the centre of Martin Amis's London Fields. It's their lonesome money paid for the servers." Brought the expensive first generation of the Internet into their homes. Doing it, he explains, is how they "killed the Sony Betamax. The nasty little thing starts jerking off in the third trimester and never, ever stops." According to another character, masturbation is one of the great engines of human history. One character observes: "According to British anthropologist Catherine Blackledge, the human fetus begins to masturbate in the womb a month before birth. Pornography is, Palahniuk hints, eternal and ineradicable.
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