We Need A New Kind Of Porn? Really?
Alain de Botton, the writer who taught you how Proust can change your life, has published a new book: “How To Think More About Sex.” The Guardian’s Hadley Freeman takes the book apart pretty efficiently, and in the process of lambasting de Botton for saying the Internet has made the world “awash in porn,” brings up the brilliant comedian Bill Hicks. ‘As [Hicks] pointed out some decades ago, if, according to the supreme court’s definition, pornography is “any act that has no artistic value and causes sexual thoughts,” quite a lot of advertising verges on pornography: wear this deodorant and women will try to gang bang you! Go to this gym and your sex life will be amazing! Chew this gum and you’ll have a threesome!”
