A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

These two ads help us to see one of the most peculiar features of our world — the interfusion of sex and technology. It is not a feature created by the ad men, but it seems rather to be born of a hungry curiosity to explore and enlarge the domain of sex by mechanical technique, on one hand, and, on the other, to possess machines in a sexually gratifying way.
The Mechanical Bride (1951), p 94
Year: 1951
↪ Also at #4424, #6335
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