ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an important distinction between the sexuality of love, and that of the obscene stage show, the Sex Fair, and 'sex' cinema. Effects are compartmentalized, so that the 'effect' of sexual depiction is allowed to be estimated only in terms of consequent sexual behaviour, such as masturbation. Sexual symbolism belongs to the whole complex of communicating with the world. Pornography is thus an act of intellectual will, and so destructive of the realm of being in which alone meaningful sex can happen. The confusion over pornography arises from the mistaken assumption that the effect of obscene shows is to be considered in terms of sexual arousal, and whether people may then commit immoral acts. To recognize the existence of moral inversion is to acknowledge moral forces as primary motives of man; it is to deny that 'sublimation' underlies the creation of culture.
