Myth of Porn

"The ubiquity of sexual images does not free eros but dilutes it. Other cultures know this. I am not advocating a return to the days of hiding female sexuality, but I am noting that the power and charge of sex are maintained when there is some sacredness to it, when it is not on tap all the time. In many more traditional cultures, it is not prudery that leads them to discourage men from looking at pornography. It is, rather, because these cultures understand male sexuality and what it takes to keep men and women turned on to one another over time—to help men, in particular, to, as the Old Testament puts it, “rejoice with the wife of thy youth; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times.” These cultures urge men not to look at porn because they know that a powerful erotic bond between parents is a key element of a strong family.

And feminists have misunderstood many of these prohibitions."

A bit of a generalization, as "traditional cultures" refers not only to behaviours, but also to value systems, and those can be all over the board from extremely narrow-minded to genuinely generous to all involved, often also depending on class or caste. But the basic implication is true enough. Certainly, they way back is not the way ahead. Pre-porn is not post-porn. Anyway, nice article by Naomi Wolf at the NY mag, link here.