squeers,

'manly' I can't believe you use the word. You are nothing but a pathetic patsy.

If you have paedophilic urges or feel concerned about your potential to rape, you can go and get psychoanalysed by your equally pathetic feminist academic friends. It will just confirm their prejudices anyway. But don't tar all men with your own insecurities.

I'll say one thing for you mad lefties - at least you had it right with re-education camps. I'd like to take you and your trendy psyochbabble man-hater and sentence you both to 10 year hard labour in a mine with no chance of parole (or a latte) for 10 years. Surely that would knock some sense into your febrile brains.

Dane,
Under Brezhnev they also used psychiatry as a tool of repression, they'd commit anyone they didn't like to a mental hospital, drug them, torture and kill them, oh how the Lefties love psychiatry.

dane,

Regarding your odious excuse for a post above: from where I'm standing, your brand of right-wing macho slander is probably the reason feminism got going in the first place.

Groteseque!

I'd be disturbed too, Squeers,if I thought that way.

>>I don't believe paedophiles are a rare aberration; disturbingly, I think like rape it's potential in all men, it just wants the right circumstances and "freedom".<<

Have you thought about therapy?

Incidentally, I'd still appreciate some further justification for these numbers claimed by the author:

"The porn industry is gigantic – its profits are larger than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, and Apple combined (yes, that's right, combined), with worldwide profits currently posited at US 100 billion dollars."

Or are they simply plucked from the air, as so many of the depictions of the "typical male" seem to be?

Actually, it's interesting to see a few "blokes" here rounding on Squeers because he has the temerity to suggest that man is primarily a carnal being - and that when social systems fail (such as in war) then man's carnal desires are more likely to overtake his social conditioning.

I get the impression that you guys are seeking to sublimate that proposition by using Squeers as a scapegoat - it's fairly obvious, in fact.

A psychologist would probably have a field day - more with you guys than with Squeers.

Whilst we await the author's reply to the question Pericles raised, I was curious enough to try some internet research…

There seemed to be broad consensus that global annual revenues are in the region of $100 billion.

This article by Dr Elliott Morss seemed to be considered and detailed enough to be insightful – including links to source data – http://www.morssglobalfinance.com/the-economics-of-the-global-entertainment-industry/

Whatever the comings and goings of the charge that 'porn hurts women' – the estimate that global annual revenues from prostitution are four times that of porn at $400 billion seems to me to say much more about both genders.

Caveat vendor?