Like the elements of adreamreflect indisguised form the elements of the personality which dreams it 45, the elements of a sexual fantasyreflect the elements of the personality which does the fantasizing. When a specific type of porn throws the viewer into a frenzy of adrenaline, thistype of porn reflects keyimpulses - conflicts, desires - within the psyche of the viewer, givingthem a standardized form, with actors reenacting 'fantasies', which are symbolic, ritualized, neurotic symptoms, characteristic of certain types of psyche, of certain types of humans manufactured in our civilization. A controlled direct orindirect experience of agony - this experience ofagony is somethingalmost all inhabitants ofour civilization compulsively need to experience.
Here we are at the veryend of this study- a theoretical model has been offered to the reader,
for the explanation of the functions of hard porn consumption. It is a restricted model,
applicable to the specific 'intense heterosexual porn' whichis I would say predominant today
even outside the 'underground'. It can probablynot be applied successfully to any other
phenomena, or even other aspects of what has been analyzed up to now, although through the
whole text manyattemptsare visible of the model projecting its tendrils toother areas of
human life. By thispoint I except the reader will not be surprised that I finish the whole topic
with a lengthy quote from Wilhelm Reich, writtenwhen the shadows of Hitler and
Stalin had fallen over the whole of Middleearth: "Basically speaking, this is merelya
summaryof facts,which, in an isolated way, have been well known to us for a long time:
1. Mankind is biologically sick.
2. Politics is the irrational socialexpressionofthis sickness.
3. Whatever takes place in social life is activelyor passively, voluntarilyorinvoluntarily,
determined by the structure of masses of people.
4. Thischaracter structureis formedby socioeconomic processes and it anchorsand perpetuates
these processes. Man's biopathic character structure is,as it were, the fossilization of the
authoritarianprocess of history. It is thebiophysical reproductionof mass suppression.
5. Thehuman structure is animatedby thecontradiction betweenan intense longingfor andfear
offreedom.
6. Thefear offreedomofmasses of people isexpressed in the biophysical rigidityof the
organism and the inflexibilityofthe character.
7. Everyformof social leadership is merely the social expressionoftheoneor theothersideof
this structure ofmasses of people.
8. It is not a question of the Versailles PeaceTreaty, theoil wells of Bakuor twoorthree
hundred years ofcapitalism, but a question offour to six thousand years of authoritarian
mechanistic civilization, which has ruined man's biological functioning.
9. Interest inmoney and power isasubstituteforunfulfilledhappiness in love, supported by the
biological rigidityofmasses of people.
10. The suppressionof thenatural sexualityofchildren and adolescents serves tomould the
human structure in such a way that masses of people become willing upholders and
reproducers of mechanistic authoritarian civilization.
11. Thousandsofyears of human suppression are intheprocess ofbeingeliminated.
That last point is surprisinglyoptimistic of a social scientist whose
books were first burnedby the Nazi's and later onbyAmerican federalagents, nevertheless it
can not be denied that as a civilization we have come a long way since Dr. Reich's death
- we did not evenannihilate the planet with nuclear weapons. Now the Muslim peoples
are goingthrougha similar fascist crisis like we did in decades past, in the foreseeable
future, the internal massacres of Africa are also likely to becomeexternal and thus directly relevant to the
world. All we can do is try our best to help facilitate human understanding and act according to it. The
sooner a major shift happensinthe prevailing character structures, the sooner the hard porn explosion
is to abate. Until that happens, making it illegal will not uninvent it, neither the impulses which it
catersto will disappear. It will become an illegal dark cruel business where one hand
will be voting to condemn whoever is caught doing it, while the other will
pull at the penis in the secret room.
