Katha_pollitt.mp3
Katha Pollitt reads a selection from her memoir, Learning to Drive: and Other Life Stories, concerning her first post-college job as a proofreader of pornographic novels. A simultaneously wry and poignant commentary on the ubiquity of pornography as well as its homogenous content.
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What a great piece to open a conversation about pornography. I think some people think that talking about this is completely off bounds. Others feel as if when they talk about it they have to be nonchalant, as if to be passionate on either approval or disapproval of pornography is a bad thing.
This is so interesting! I've never read Katha Politt, but now I want to.
I love her observation that porn isn't how people have sex, until we watch a porno and copy it-- then it becomes how we have sex! How many people want to try things in the bedroom cuz they saw it in a porno? I bet, a lot.
sara