Porn and Pussy Nerdery

Re: Porn's philosopher king

"Pressing the play button is an admission of sexual failure: I can't sleep with an attractive woman, so I guess I'll watch some other guy do it."

For all his thoughtfulness National Post columnist Jon Kay seems to agree with Ron Jeremy's assertion "Let's be honest - people get bored." Following Kay's line of logic we can see one ought to seek out and procure pus-pardon, partners, in full neanderthal conquering mode.

Sure, porn is depressing. There's a moral and pragmatic arguement for that. Moralists like the acclaimed Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family approve of masturbation for its inherent safety-valve qualities. Grumpy novelists like Norman Mailer abhor onanism for its wasting of seed while Kay chafes due to its admission of defeat. Kay's stance, essentially, is a modified intellectualism born of 80s movies such as Porky's, where man is not man unless he's well, gotten laid. Which really isn't much of a position at all, Kay's missionary for 80s moralism.

Not to split hairs, but failure would be the inability to rise to even a solitary occasion. What Kay terms failure is other people's training.