Literature and Fiction · Flexibound

Pornomania

Eirik Husby Sæther

Mattis grows up in an age of porn magazines and censored pictures of naked bodies. But then the Internet arrives, the censorship is gone and porn is made available for free through streaming. To attract "voyeurs" the porn becomes more and more violent and humiliating. This is when porn take over the life of Mattis. From living in a house with his parents and younger sister, he is institutionalized in the care of the state. He is sentenced for rape, arson and hard violence. The pornography imprisons him, in a bodily prison he wants to break free from. This is a novel about a generation of voyeurs. About extroverted sex and loneliness.