Porn has been ubiquitous all of my life. The Supreme Court’s 1969 decision in Stanley vs Georgia had essentially revoked state obscenity laws across the land, and thus let loose the hounds of sexual exploitation.

By the 90s, porn was experiencing a second revolution: the internet. The legalization and normalization of porn which had been achieved in the 70s and 80s was now ready for an unprecedented platform. What was once discoverable only in red light districts was now in every home, on every desk. The advent of the smartphone simply meant that the red light district had been universalized and “made present” — like some dark counter-liturgy — in every pocket on the planet.