ABSTRACT
Enjoying specifics and being one of those bored by theory not anchored in observations, the author proceeds from particulars: from a photograph, to why the picture serves as pornography, to its owner's tastes in pornography, to his perversion, to perversion in men in general, to men's erotic excitement, to gender identity in men. At the center of most erotic excitement and all perversion, he have suggested is fantasy, conscious, preconscious, or unconscious, energized by hostility. To "harm" in this theory means these sorts of related states: to be cruel, brutal, inhuman, barbaric, malicious, hateful; to degrade, debase, abuse, deride, torment, wound, hurt, overpower, ridicule, insult, offend, dishonor, disdain, scorn, deflate, discredit, defame, mortify, crush, disgrace, shame. A problem with the harm model is that, as with other psychodynamic models, we have no way to quantify the strength of impulses such as the desire to degrade another or to revenge oneself.
