Dr. Robert Stoller, who was a psychiatry professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, believed that perversion was “the result of an essential interplay between hostility and sexual desire.”[5] Stoller theorized that pornography and other sexual fantasies are vehicles that allow childhood trauma to be transformed symbolically into sexual power. He says that “at [pornography’s] heart is a fantasied act of revenge, condensing in itself the subject’s sexual life history—his memories and fantasies, traumas, frustrations, and joys. There is always a victim, no matter how disguised: no
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