For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their own; since the 1960s pornographic upsurge, the sexuality of children has begun to be shaped in response to cues that are no longer human. […] Today's children and young men and women have sexual identities that spiral around paper and celluloid phantoms: from Playboy to music videos to the blank female torsos in women's magazines, features obscured and eyes extinguished, they are being imprinted with a sexuality that is mass-produced, deliberately dehumanizing and inhuman.


Chapter 5 : 'Sex', p. 162 - The Beauty Myth (1991)

Naomi Wolf Quotes

For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their...

For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their...

For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their...

For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their...