Jacques Barzun said it better in From Dawn to Decadence, 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
The sexual reality was often halfhearted and disappointing, much obsession but little passion-- what D. H. Lawrence had called "sex in the head." Men and women did not benefit from the boasted "revolution" as they had expected; it did give some people the free play they wanted, but it pushed many more into courses unsuited to their nature and capacities.It did not install the Mohammedan paradise on earth, although everything in sight suggested that it had. Pornography is a form of utopian literature and, like the advertising of Desire, it set a standard that brought on paralysis. When an erectifying drug was put on the market, the millions who rushed to obtain it numbered the healthy young as well as the ailing old, and women at once demanded its feminine equivalent. It was apparently not known that desire must be dammed up to be self-renewing.
I find it amusing that some who I recognize to be libertarian evolutionists here at FR are the most pro-porno on this thread. I'd love to hear them explain the evolutionary utility of porno, and its place in man's development on the African savannah 3.5 million years ago!
Amusing, but not at all surprising.
This is a great book. Highly recommended to anyone.