A few years ago, a friend-unsurprisingly, a female friend-mentioned that there was strong medical evidence for the proposition that online pornography is a lot more dangerous than most people suspect. I believe eroticism is one of God’s greatest gifts to humankind, prudishness a bizarre aberration, and not so long ago, hyperbolic warnings about the perils of pornography, whether from my Evangelical Christian or progressive feminist friends, had me rolling my eyes. Every fiber of my Latin, Catholic body recoils at puritanism of any sort, especially the bizarre, Anglo-Puritan kind so prevalent in America. Since it seems somehow relevant, let me state at the outset that I am French. The most powerful obstacle to confronting a destructive addiction is denial, and collectively we are in denial about pornography. I think many readers of this article will respond with outrage, and many will see it says things they already knew to be true-and I think these two groups will largely overlap. They say the first step is admitting you have a problem. A Science-Based Case for Ending the Porn Epidemic
