Literature

"The current study adopted a participant-informed, “bottom-up,” qualitative approach to identifying perceived effects of pornography on the couple relationship. A large sample (N = 430) of men and women in heterosexual relationships in which pornography was used by at least one partner was recruited through online (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and offline (e.g., newspapers, radio, etc.) sources. Participants responded to open-ended questions regarding perceived consequences of pornography use for each couple member and for their relationship in the context of an online survey. In the current sample of respondents, “no negative effects” was the most commonly reported impact of pornography use. Among remaining responses, positive perceived effects of pornography use on couple members and their relationship (e.g., improved sexual communication, more sexual experimentation, enhanced sexual comfort) were reported frequently; negative perceived effects of pornography (e.g., unrealistic expectations, decreased sexual interest in partner, increased insecurity) were also reported, albeit with considerably less frequency. The results of this work suggest new research directions that require more systematic attention."

"In this study, we examined the unique contribution of pornography consumption to the longitudinal prediction of criminal recidivism in a sample of 341 child molesters. We specifically tested the hypothesis, based on predictions informed by the confluence model of sexual aggression that pornography will be a risk factor for recidivism only for those individuals classified as relatively high risk for re-offending. Pornography use (frequency and type) was assessed through self-report and recidivism was measured using data from a national database from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Indices of recidivism, which were assessed up to 15 years after release, included an overall criminal recidivism index, as well as subcategories focusing on violent (including sexual) recidivism and sexual recidivism alone. Results for both frequency and type of pornography use were generally consistent with our predictions. Most importantly, after controlling for general and specific risk factors for sexual aggression, pornography added significantly to the prediction of recidivism. Statistical interactions indicated that frequency of pornography use was primarily a risk factor for higher-risk offenders, when compared with lower-risk offenders, and that content of pornography (i.e., pornography containing deviant content) was a risk factor for all groups. The importance of conceptualizing particular risk factors (e.g., pornography), within the context of other individual characteristics is discussed."

"To this day, I can't watch my own sex scenes."

"Though watching porn may seem degrading to some women, the fact is that it's one of the few jobs for women where you can get to a certain level, look around, and feel so powerful, not just in the work environment but as a sexual being. So, fuck Gloria Steinem."

"The oppressive measures on pornography by the Korean government are totally insane... It is actually seen that it oppresses masculinity and that it distorts the essentials. It is all done by the Ministry of Gender Equality and women’s organizations led by Korean feminists."

"Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable. Propaganda is far more pornographic than a home video of two people fucking."

"Using an online sample of participants in committed relationships, support was found for a moderated mediation model in which depression mediated the relationship between pornography use and relationship satisfaction, and this indirect effect was moderated by level of moral disapproval. Results indicate that, among consumers of pornography, their level of moral disapproval exacerbates adverse intra- and interpersonal outcomes such as distress and decreased relationship satisfaction. These results extend the empirical literature that examines the conditional effects of moral disapproval of pornography use to relational outcomes."

"Despite the fact that, prior to COVID-19, 17 states introduced or passed legislation calling pornography use a public health crisis, public health professionals have argued that it really is not one, and I tend to agree. COVID-19, on the other hand, certainly is a public health crisis."

"In 2019, my colleagues and I published a review of over 130 scientific studies of pornography use and motivation. We found that the most common reason people report for why they view pornography is sexual arousal. Research is abundantly clear that the majority of time that pornography is used, it is used as a part of masturbation."

"In the United States, Internet pornography use is a common behavior that has risen in popularity in recent years. The present study sought to examine potential relationships between pornography use and well-being, with a particular focus on individual perceptions of pornography use and feelings of addiction. Using a large cross-sectional sample of adults (N = 713), perceived addiction to Internet pornography predicted psychological distress above and beyond pornography use itself and other relevant variables (e.g., socially desirable responding, neuroticism). This model was replicated using a large cross-sectional sample of undergraduates (N = 1,215). Furthermore, a 1-year, longitudinal follow-up with a subset of this sample (N = 106) revealed a relationship between perceived addiction to Internet pornography and psychological distress over time, even when controlling for baseline psychological distress and pornography use. Collectively, these findings suggest that perceived addiction to Internet pornography, but not pornography use itself, is uniquely related to the experience of psychological distress."

"I never lov’d a book of horn, Nor leaves that have their letters worn; Nor with a fescue to direct me, Where every puny shall correct me."

"When little children first are brought to schoole A Horne-booke is a necessarie toole."

"One day was allowed the child wherein to learn his letters; and each of them did in that time know all its letters, great and small, except Molly and Nancy, who were a day and a half before they knew them perfectly, for which I thought them very dull, but since I have observed how long many children are learning the horn-book I have changed my opinion."

"Lo! now with State she utters the Command, Eftsoons the Urchins to their Tasks repair: Their Books of Stature small they take in Hand, Which with pellucid horn secured are, To save from finger wet the Letters fair…"

"Yes, yes, he teaches boys the Horne-booke: What is Ab speld backward with the horn on its head."

"Hearkens after prophecies and dreams; And from the cross-row plucks the letter G, And says a wizard told him that by G His issue disinherited should be."

"Quan a chyld to scole xal set be, A bok hym is browt, Naylyd on a brede of tre, That men callyt an abece Pratylych i-wrout."

"No wonder that the horn-book is the despair of mothers!"

"I come not here to learn the horn-book of war…"

"What other books there are in English of the kind of those above-mentioned, fit to engage the liking of children, and tempt them to read, I do not know; but am apt to think that children, being generally delivered over to the method of schools, where the fear of the rod is to enforce, and not any pleasure of the employment to invite them to learn; this sort of useful books, amongst the number of silly ones that are of all sorts, have yet had the fate to be neglected; and nothing that I know has been considered of this kind out of the ordinary road of the horn-book, primer, psalter, Testament, and Bible."

"Methinks, you and I should have been born under the same roof, sucked the same milk, conned the same horn-book, thumbed the same Testament together; for we have been more than sisters, Maria!"

"And yet God made all three."

"Potentially— As every christened rogue’s a child of God, Or those old hags, Christ’s brides—Think of your horn-book— The world, the flesh, and the devil—a goodly leash!"

"Here The letters may be read, through the horn, That make the story perfect."

"He resolved therefore to answere his humble orator; but being himselfe not brought up to learning (for the divell can neither write nor reade) yet he has been to all the vniversities in Christendom, and thrown damnable heresies (like bones for dogges to gnaw upon) amongst the doctors themselves; but hauing no skill but in his owne Horne-booke, it troubled his mind where he should get a pen-man fit for his tooth to scribe for him."

"Neatly secured from being soil’d or torn, Beneath a pane of thin translucent horn, A book (to please us at a tender age ’Tis call’d a book, though but a single page) Presents the prayer the Saviour deign’d to teach, Which children use, and parsons—when they preach."

"I have taught my little master to know his letters and spell a little, as well as I could, out of my Bible; for they have given him neither horn-book nor primmer."

"None but imprison’d children now Are seen, where dames with angry brow Threaten each younker to his seat, Who through the window, eyes the street; Or from his horn-book turns away, To mourn for liberty and play."

"Sir W.—“Come, come, let’s see, Man! What’s this! Odd! this Law is a plaguy troublesome thing; for, now a days, it won’t let a Man give away his own, without repeating the Particulars 500 times over: When in former times, a Man might have held his Title to Twenty Thousand pound a year, in compass of an Horn book.”"

"…walked abroad with ferule and horn-book"

"…if I keep sinking from one abyss of ignorance to another, with a velocity proportionable to what I have letely done, I must soon turn back to the first foundation of all human learning, a horn-book."

"Nor let them fall under Discouragement, Who at their Horn-book stick, and time hath spent Upon that A, B, C, while others do Into their Primer, or their Psalter go."

"Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the horn-book, turning silk dresses and making children’s frocks."

"I am the way I am the light I am the dark inside the night I hear your hopes I feel your dreams And in the dark I hear your screams Don't turn away Just take my hand And when you make your final stand I'll be right there, I'll never leave And all I ask of you is... Believe"

"'The whole thing I think is sick.'"

"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades."

"'Cause we're all to blame We've gone too far From pride to shame, We're trying so hard, We're dying in vain, We want it all, Everyone, don't we all?"

"[If] you can't hide it, you might as well embrace it."

"I'm not your star... Isn't that what you said, what you thought this song meant?"

"Be careful how you touch her, for she'll awaken, And sleep's the only freedom that she knows."

"There are things in Doris's life, but then there are in everyone's. She opens her little mouth, She sings her little song. Like a flag it folds out across the city, and it goes: "The old man becomes an ice-skater... A maniac becomes a stepfather... I watch a policeman's mouth - out comes an honest word." Miracles happen when Doris sings. Couples in love stop dead in their tracks. Dishes clatter to the ground unbroken. Politicians die."

"If the kids are united they will never be divided."

"I did it my way."

"I never wanted to know Never wanted to see I wasted my time Till time wasted me I never wanted to go I always wanted to stay 'Cause the persons I am Are the parts that I play So I plot and I plan And I hope and I scheme To the lure of a night Filled with unfinished dreams And I'm holding on tight To a world gone astray As they charge me for years I can't pay"

"You're still searching for these answers They're not inside your wrist"

"This is ourselves under pressure"

"In wine there's truth but in silence there's surrender."

"I want to be your Blowjob Queen"

"It's just fuck and run Fuck and run Ever since I was 17 Even when I was 12"

"Scared the lights'll turn green You'll have to be seen You'll be like anybody else Scared the lights'll turn red You're stuck in your head You can't run it to even her How you gonna get through the year?"