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It turns out that you cannot actually force men to get married and sire children. If you make marriage unattractive enough, if you turn it into something degrading, if you make servitude the price of reproduction, very large numbers of men will choose wanking over sex and hookups over marriage. They will prefer the extinction of their familial lineage and even of their very race to being unmanned. You can rage against this, you can tell them they need to man up and do what’s necessary no matter how humiliating it feels, but male psychology is what it is and protests to the contrary are shouting into the raging hurricane of human nature. Chimp in state of nature never jerks off; a panda in captivity won’t fuck even to save its species. Wat does this mean?
Pornography is often blamed for the derangement of modern man, and there is some truth to this. Internet porn is an audiovisual drug that men can mainline straight to their brainstems from the obsidian sand demon portal that’s always just a stroke of their soft fingers away, and there is practically not a single man alive who has not been touched in this way. Porn has hit Western man with all the terrible fury that firewater hit the red man: we have no natural defences against it; being ubiquitous and freely available, it is impossible to escape; it is hideously addictive; prolonged abuse carries horrible psychological consequences, leaving addicts depressed and enervated.
Despite this, porn is not actually to blame for the malaise. Porn is not a cause, but a symptom. The red man was driven wild by firewater for centuries, but alcoholism did not really destroy him until he was sequestered on the reserve, isolated, bored, dependent, and politically impotent. At the same time Wall Street is full of high-functioning alcoholics and cokeheads. Environment makes all the difference with addictive substances. Addiction studies demonstrating the overwhelming power of cocaine or heroin to enslave the mammalian brain were largely performed on rats kept isolated in bare cages in brightly lit rooms. Such an environment is the nearest thing to hell for a rat: it is exposed, lonely, and dull. With their only source of stimulation being a spigot dispensing morphine-laced water, which they could access at will, they naturally developed a habit. Later studies found that rats kept in more congenial environments – large enclosures with other rats to socialize with, places to explore and hide, stimulating toys to play with – were not nearly so helpless when exposed to chemically addictive drugs. If the environment is terrible, any substance will do: when Indian reserves tried banning alcohol, their bands simply turned to huffing glue, paint, and gasoline.
Porn addiction is an epidemic, yes, but vast numbers of men use porn in vast quantities not because porn has some sort of sorcerous potency to entrance them, and not because they are weak or flawed or bad, but simply because they have been forced to inhabit the most sexually sterile environment that the human species has ever created. In fact, sexually sterile is not really the right characterization, because after all some some men are still getting laid quite a bit. The hell we live in is romantically sterile, an environment in which love itself is made all but impossible to achieve. Men aren’t only using porn to cope with an absence of a sex life because they’re rejects who can’t talk to girls, although there are certainly many of these. There are also many sensitive souls who turn to pornography out of an overpowering nausea: they could have sex if they wanted, but sex without love strikes them as pointless, a sickening pantomime, a howling existential void in precisely that place where the richest of life’s meaning should be. It’s sex reduced to biological function, to Agamben’s bare life, la petit mort to help the Last Man get a good night’s sleep. Thank you for getting me off, my head is clear now, so you can fuck off whenever you like. As they say, you don’t pay the prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave.
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