The conclusion that Sontag came to at the end of her essay was that it doesn't really matter about whether or not something is pornography, but what the quality of it was, what the quality of its consciousness and knowledge was. And although she put it more eloquently than I might ever have, I was sort of let down by this conclusion. To me, it seemed rather obvious. After all, isn't the fact that all of us are taking this class testimony to the fact that we've understood this beforehand? Otherwise, we would just be taking a class on pornography, not literature.
Did anyone else feel the same way? Or oppositely?
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