![]() For the first time in human history, the images’ power and allure have supplanted that of real naked women. For how can a real woman-with pores and her own breasts and even sexual needs of her own (let alone with speech that goes beyond “More, more, you big stud!”)-possibly compete with a cybervision of perfection, downloadable and extinguishable at will, who comes, so to speak, utterly submissive and tailored to the consumer’s least specification?įor most of human history, erotic images have been reflections of, or celebrations of, or substitutes for, real naked women. Here is what young women tell me on college campuses when the subject comes up: They can’t compete, and they know it. On the contrary: The onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening male libido in relation to real women, and leading men to see fewer and fewer women as “porn-worthy.” Far from having to fend off porn-crazed young men, young women are worrying that as mere flesh and blood, they can scarcely get, let alone hold, their attention. Young men and women are indeed being taught what sex is, how it looks, what its etiquette and expectations are, by pornographic training-and this is having a huge effect on how they interact.īut the effect is not making men into raving beasts. The whole world, post-Internet, did become pornographized. As she foretold, pornography did breach the dike that separated a marginal, adult, private pursuit from the mainstream public arena. She was right about the warning, wrong about the outcome. The world she had, Cassandra-like, warned us about so passionately was truly here: Porn is, as David Amsden says, the “wallpaper” of our lives now. The feminist warrior looked gentle and almost frail. In a kind of domino theory, she predicted, rape and other kinds of sexual mayhem would surely follow. ![]() If we did not limit pornography, she argued-before Internet technology made that prospect a technical impossibility-most men would come to objectify women as they objectified porn stars, and treat them accordingly. Wolf is an author behind books like “The Beauty Myth” and “The End of America.”Įveryone listen to Naomi Wolf realize on live radio that the historical thesis of the book she's there to promote is based on her misunderstanding a legal term a benefit the other night, I saw Andrea Dworkin, the anti-porn activist most famous in the eighties for her conviction that opening the floodgates of pornography would lead men to see real women in sexually debased ways. Listen to the relevant snippet of the interview below, and the full audio here. ![]() Sweet also said that prison records indicated a discharge date for the 14-year-old in question, and that he “committed an indecent assault on a six-year-old boy.”Īlso Read: Natalie Portman Denies Relationship With Moby, Calls DJ an 'Older Man Being Creepy' Wolf wrote that numerous men in the 19th century were executed for “sodomy,” but Sweet recited a passage of her book in which she lists one 14-year old convict as “death recorded.” Sweet then said that the term “death recorded” is “a category that was created in 1823 that allowed judges to abstain from pronouncing a sentence of death on any capital convict whom they considered to be a fit subject for pardon,” and suggested that the executions Wolf identified didn’t actually happen. However, during her interview, the BBC’s Matthew Sweet challenged two key assertions in her book, one of which appeared to be based on a misunderstanding of a legal term. Wolf’s book “Outrages” is about how homosexuality was criminalized in 19th century England. ![]() We are discussing corrections with the author,” the publisher said in a statement.Īlso Read: Ben Shapiro Ends Contentious Interview With BBC Host: 'I Don't Give a Damn What You Think' Despite this unfortunate error we believe the overall thesis of the book ‘Outrages’ still holds. “While HMH employs professional editors, copyeditors, and proofreaders for each book project, we rely ultimately on authors for the integrity of their research and fact-checking. In a statement to TheWrap, a representative for publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said the publisher relies “ultimately on authors for the integrity of their research and fact-checking” and is talking with Wolf about corrections. The publisher of author Naomi Wolf’s book “Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love” has said it is “discussing corrections” with Wolf but still stands behind the book’s thesis after an error was pointed out to her during a live radio interview Wolf did with the BBC. ![]()
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