Naomi Wolf On Porn
A piece appeared recently in the Daily Mail over in the UK in which feminist author Naomi Wolf talks about how porn is destroying people’s lives.
The story is lengthy, but worth the read.
Wolf’s concluding paragraphs are, to me, very poignant. She manages to summarize the situation in a way that should grab our attention.
She says that those who wish to end their addiction — like ending any addiction — can do so with effort.
Men who have done so — that is for whom we have data — report a great sense of regaining psychological control, and heightened arousal with their wives or girlfriends, she says, based on conversations she has had with couples.
Then she asks:
Are we ‘sexually liberated’ if porn is taking over our thought processes and corroding our ability to sustain meaningful relationships? I think we are less sexually free.
Wolf is right to question the idea that porn is sexually liberating. And she says what many probably dare not, but should, say:
A powerful industry is manipulating us – and ruthlessly exploiting some hard-wiring in the male brain – to turn us more and more into sexual and emotional robots, only capable of achieving sexual fullfilment in a room with a computer, alone.
Intentional Warriors 
One Response to “Naomi Wolf On Porn”
Reblogged this on beyondhissexaddiction and commented:
I read Naomi Wolf’s article and completely agree. My aversion to porn is not a moral one either. It is based on the experiences I have had that have shown me how unsexy and restrictive porn is.