[lbo-talk] Capitalism and porn

[// ravi]

On Jan 23, 2012, at 2:15 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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> Actually, the article in the paper did not imply bleakness, it asserted it.
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> And, much as I want to blame capitalism for everything, something tells me that sex in Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia is its own version of bleakness.
> 

What is bleak sex and what is not? Not being facetious. Are we counting frequency (as the word “bleak” implies), and/or some other metric? People are having sex in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia (neither socialist), I would think, no? Do you mean that for the women, living in those restrictive environments, the sex must not be fun? (bleak in that sense?).


> But beyond the shoddiness of the writing and thought in the article, I was just curious about the stats. Hearing that 25% of young men cannot achieve potency under normal circumstances seems really questionable to me.

I agree.

	—ravi