On Porn
“He said he personally prefer that Orin wait until he’d found someone he loved enough to want to have sex with and had sex with this person, that he’d experienced for himself what a profound and really quite moving thing sex could be, before he watched a film where sex was presented a little more and organs going in and out of other organs, emotionless, terribly lonely. He said he was afraid that something like The Green Door would give Orin and impoverished, lonely idea of sexuality.
What poor O. claimed to have found moving was Himself’s assumption that O. was still cherry. What moved me to feel sorry for Orin was that it seemed pretty obvious that that nothing to do with with what Himself was trying to talk about.”
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest (pg 956)
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