    Posted on 23 Jul | 2 comments A 19th century French
engraving. A 19th century French engraving.  Modesty creates
pornography.  Follow me on this thought experiment. Imagine
people tomorrow became completely immodest, giving up clothing
and walls. Imagine sex became a no-big-deal public activity like
having a meeting or eating lunch. Could you do sex tomorrow at
9am? Oh, that’s a little early for me. Could we try a little
later in the day?  If we saw naked people all the time every
day, would there be a need for pictures of naked people? If sex
were commonplace, would there be a need for movies degrading it?
The mystification that accompanies modesty creates the need for
an industry of pornography, but also creates the abstraction of
it. If sex were not dirty, sex movies would not be dirty.  There
is a trend right now towards modesty. When I wrote that we might
become completely immodest tomorrow, you might have looked
around whatever place you find yourself in and commented that
this has already happened