Thursday, June 01, 2006

Subway, she is a porno

Johann Hari, who writes for the Independent, has a piece on how the profusion of pornography and its effects. The opening paragraph is one of the best I have seen in some time.

I am a member of the last generation of Western teenagers who had to struggle and strive to get hold of porn. I still remember the hysterical burst of testosterone (laced with desperation) that burst over my school playground when I was 11 years old and it was revealed that one of my classmates had swiped a porn mag from his dad. The Penthouse was passed from hand to hand like a fragile Ming vase, its pages studied with the obsessive care of Talmudic scholars poring over the Mishnah. I didn't stumble across another porn mag for years.

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