Porn in general is a taboo subject IMO. Doesn't matter how normalized it gets, how much the industry is shoved down your throat, for "normal" people porn is still taboo. Even your white friend who talks about their sex lives with their mothers don't talk about their porn habits with their mothers.

This book pierces that veil, and wrangles with it for hundreds of pages. The fantasy behind porn, the fantasy behind the fantasy, the impotence within, all gets discussed in this book. I do believe this is exactly the intention of TLP, but you feel like you're going through an intense and personal psychoanalytic session with the most interesting psychiatrist in this world. You keep telling yourself that you're different from the people he's talking about, but halfway through the book, you simply cannot understand how this guy analyzed pornography to this extent. You feel naked reading this book. You feel like you've been exposed; you've been unveiled. The subconscious you didn't even comprehend within yourself seems wide open.

I don't really want to discuss specific aspects of the book. I feel like my analysis is incomplete and weak. I also don't remember a lot. But in a way, I feel like that's not the point. I didn't learn tangible, concrete belief systems or opinions from the book as much as I wish I did. I didn't change any habits of mine either. However, I did observe how someone like TLP breaches a subject like this.

TLP is truly a modern polymath. He's brilliant. As you read, you WISH he was your psychiatrist. I highly, highly recommend this book to anyone.