There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, Did you get an erection If the answer is Yes from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic. (W. H. Auden)

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, Did you get an erection If the answer is Yes from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

W. H. Auden

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