Michael KimmelThinkers

Pornography is talked about by men in two ways: as revenge and as reassurance. When one lives in a world in which beautiful, sexy women are all around one, in the same classes, on the same athletic field, competing for the same jobs, then the pornographic world - the world in which women thrill to male sexual desire - reassures men that although they may feel "one down," they're still entitled to women's bodies.