Let's Ban Porn

  • The sex education programs in my mostly liberal schools featured a touching faith from the adults in charge that they were engaged in a great work of enlightenment, that with the right curricula they could roll back the forces of repression and make sexuality a place of egalitarian pleasure and safety for us all.

    Well at my liberal school, it was s brief and awkward exercise in box-checking. Maybe the author attended Utopia, but um, not me.

    That we cannot imagine such censorship is part of our larger inability to imagine any escape from the online world’s immersive power, even as we harbor growing doubts about its influence upon our psyches.

    Not only can we imagine it, we’ve seen where that road leads. No thanks.