Everybody Likes Porn
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At least that is how it must seem to Pamela Paul the author of Pornified. When asked to profile the typical porn fan she replied:
There isn’t, and that’s what is scary, too. It was naïve on my part, but I thought, “It’s no one that I know, it’s no one who’s really well-educated or self-aware or who has been in a serious relationship. Porn is for losers who can’t get a date.” And I thought porn was for kids—a phase that all teenagers go through. In fact, porn is for everyone; everyone is using pornography. I talked to people who were Ivy League-educated, people who were engaged, people who were married, people who were divorced, people who were parents of young children. It went across all socio-economic, all racial, all ethnic, and all religious lines. I spoke with men who consider themselves to be devout church-goers and one man who taught at a Jewish seminary. I talked to a monk. I talked to people of all kinds of backgrounds and beliefs, and they all used pornography.
Interview: How Porn Destroys Lives
