provide the ever-expanding harem of new and different women a man “needs,” all without jeopardizing the family his children need to grow up securely with both parents. The pornography can also, the pop-Darwinians might tell us, save families and individuals from the consequences, such as sexually transmitted disease, that “real” sex can bring. Even so, no culture can actually live with this vision of sexuality, at least not long term. Notice the way that our culture’s songs and films and poems celebrate