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Rather than being a measure and consequence of the power of naturally occurring sexual desire, pornography is a measure of the extent to which people tend to prefer controlling desire through contrivance rather than being surprised by desire that spontaneously arises.
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Can Love Last? (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002), p. 137

 

Stephen A. Mitchell

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