Porn Needs Repression
Laura Kipnis: “Where would pornography be without repression? Out of business, that's where. If we all ran around naked, humping each other left and right whenever we felt like it, would porn exist? Doubtful! Who'd be interested in leering at this month's Playmate; who'd be snorting over the latest round of smirky "Party Jokes"? Pornography needs sexual repression to have something to overcome (or claim to overcome); it requires taboos to be able to ruffle them: Pornographers and censors are the world's most interdependent couple.”
