Marilyn Monroe once said: “I’m a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they’ve made of me—and that I’ve made of myself—as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman’s and I can’t live up to it.” As one of the first modern media pornographic icons, her naked pictures appearing in the first ever issue of Playboy Magazine, Marilyn was a unique test case for all other women, and men, who would follow. After three failed marriages, and unable to really find a man that would not wither when confronted with her megalithic personae, Marilyn met a lonely and desolate end in 1962. After that, everything would change. With the advent of mass produced hardcore pornography in the late-1960s and early 70s, and the ensuing encroachment of porn imagery in the main-stream, the false ideal of erotic beauty quantitatively multiplied in the minds of most boys and men. In the late-70s, the larger-than-life figure of the golden-maned Farrah went from Playboy, to television, to the big screen. It left an indelible mark upon the brain of my generation. Yet, even then, some innocence of the type Marilyn so typified - still remained. In the 80s, Madonna repeatedly tried to co-opt the Marilyn image, most blatantly in her video for “Material Girl.” But, this metamorphosed character had none of the vulnerability or fragility that made Marilyn seem almost wholly virtuous. What replaced that morsel of decency was a self-centered form of ugly crassness. Most tragically, ordinary women have aped this personality and slutty appearance, creating a conduit through which the porn mentality is fed directly and tangibly to the masses. This has resulted in escalating rates of wives divorcing their husbands because of his porn addiction, the curious phenomena of younger and younger men using Viagra, and the epidemic of clinical depression.