Editor,
This letter is in reference to the last Doing It In The Duke City column, by Hunter Riley. Though Ms. Riley organizes and expresses her thoughts very well, her advice to women, “it’s time to let go of your porn inhibitions,” is stunningly immature and myopic.
My grad studies and teaching experience (including Stanford, Georgetown and Yale) with over 20 linguistic and cultural histories, as well as my wife’s and my life in various countries, have taught that porn affinity just isn’t congruent with healthy individuals and stable societies.
Even Omar Khayyam observed, “Pamper your passions and you will see them multiply like insects in the sun.” Ms. Riley’s social and historical myopia mold her unfortunate opinion that “where we went wrong” was when women believed porn to be unacceptable. A wise person should not need Tiger Woods’ wife Erin to show us that a porn attitude spawns no good.
There is no sound society where women are OK with their men attending to “waxed ass holes,” or want their men ejaculating semen on women’s faces. And in an important larger context, our current porn-prone ways are one reason that many fundamentalist Muslims and Christians simply despise where we have allowed our freedoms to drag us.
Though I am not at all religious, I grant that these fundamentalists clearly and correctly perceive our growing groin-groping flaws. These errors are, in fact, “where we went wrong.”
Sensible women know this intuitively in their center of their being; sensible men know it too on their better days.
Kent Ponder
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