Jiang says Harold Rubin's engagement with pornographic images is an act of empathy and imaginative dialogue rather than control, because he feels the model's discomfort and tries to know her interiority.
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Pornography
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...saying is this. When Harold Rubin is reading or looking at pornography, it is an act of giving. It's an act of empathy. And..."
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"...saying is this. When Harold Rubin is reading or looking at pornography, it is an act of giving. It's an act of empathy. And..."
"So it's like Harold is having a conversation with each of these people. Okay? His imagination is creating a person in front of him..."
"...was created not to actually help you communicate. And to watch pornography. It was actually to have a mass surveillance system over the entire..."
"...is also another form of drug they're watching Netflix they're watching pornography they're playing video games it's all to um basically force them to..."
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