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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua (gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 04:43:39 JST rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
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In Nancy Friday's "My Secret Garden"¹, a 1973 book collecting sexual female fantasies, a woman reported when she was very young she became so excited seeing horses mating that she had to have sex (with her brother the only one available).
Now have we to abolish horses, or brothers, or both?
At least a decade ago people sued Apple for porn addiction:
https://www.techdirt.com/2013/07/12/lawyer-apple-should-protect-me-my-porn-addiction/
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¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Secret_Garden
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  My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies is a 1973 book compiled by Nancy Friday, who collected women's fantasies through letters and tapes and personal interviews. After including a female sexual fantasy in a novel she submitted for publishing, her editor objected, and Friday shelved the novel. After other women began writing and talking about sex publicly, Friday began thinking about writing a book about female sexual fantasies, first collecting fantasies from her friends, and then advertising in newspapers and magazines for more. She organized these narratives into "rooms", and each is identified by the woman's first name, except for the last chapter, "odd notes", which is presented as the "fleeting thoughts" of many anonymous women. The book revealed that women fantasize, just as men do, and that the content of the fantasies can be as transgressive, or not, as men's. The book, the first published compilation of women's sexual fantasies, challenged many previously accepted notions of female sexuality. My Secret Garden was banned in the...
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  John Shirley (johnshirley2024@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 04:43:40 JST John Shirley
  
  Mysterious woman tells school board that Scholastic book sparked porn addiction
  A 20-year-old woman named Lanah Burkhardt appeared before the school board of the Conroe Independent School District in Texas...told the board that, when she was 11, she read a Scholastic book that introduced her to "a single kiss." ...her exposure to this Scholastic book was directly responsible for her addiction to pornography.
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    On November 14, a 20-year-old woman named Lanah Burkhardt appeared before the school board of the Conroe Independent School District in Texas. Burkhardt told the board that, when she was 11, she read a Scholastic book that introduced her to "a single kiss." According to Burkhardt, her exposure to this Scholastic book was directly responsible for her developing a debilitating addiction to pornography.

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