the feminist librarian reads

Wylde says there’s nothing natural about what’s required of male performers. “If your sole job is to have an erection and get it done quickly so that everyone can get home on time,” he said, “you need to be a machine” —or a medicated human. In that sense, performing in porn is like being a professional athlete, an occupation now widely linked with drug abuse. “Look at UFC, football, basketball. Look at weight lifting,” he says. “Nobody is natural. All of that is a result of steroids and performance enhancing drugs.” The truth, he says, is that without the help of ED drugs “you’re just going to be horrible at it—unless you’re a mutant.”