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18 Oct 2017 Conversations with Tyler Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason)
“I think that people may know what they want, but they are sometimes reluctant to go for it because there’s a tendency to do things that they think are expected of them, particularly with pornography and it being quite ubiquitous.”
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- 18 Oct 2017
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…After you wrote your book on sex, did you conclude that people really know what they want? Or the contrary? I think that people may know what they want, but they are sometimes reluctant to go for it because there’s a tendency to do things that they think are expected of them, particularly with pornography and it being quite ubiquitous. I think there’s a sense of performance whereas before, if you lose yourself in the moment and you are just gone in that wonderful place that you go and sex is great, you’re not thinking about “What part of my body am I showing?” or “What position?” or “What’s expected of me?” or “What was done in that film?” One of your famous early articles from the ’90s —…
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