Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Astonishingly, the average age of first viewing porn is now 11.5 years for boys, and with the advent of the Internet, it’s no surprise that young people are consuming more porn than ever. And, as Gail Dines shows, today’s porn is strikingly different from yesterday’s Playboy. As porn culture has...
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Astonishingly, the average age of first viewing porn is now 11.5 years for boys, and with the advent of the Internet, it’s no surprise that young people are consuming more porn than ever. And, as Gail Dines shows, today’s porn is strikingly different from yesterday’s Playboy. As porn culture has become absorbed into pop culture, a new wave of entrepreneurs are creating porn that is even more hard-core, violent, sexist, and racist. Proving that porn desensitizes and actually limits our sexual freedom, Dines argues its omnipresence is a public health concern we can no longer ignore.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780807001547 (0807001546)
Publish date: April 26th 2011
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Feminism,
Culture,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Sexuality,
Psychology,
Gender,
Social Movements,
Social Justice,
Pornography
I love the British series Coupling. It's like Friends but actually funny and good. There is a talk at the dinner table in one episode about what the difference between porn and erotica is. This book further illustrates that theory.I did not know that the types of porn that Dines mentions actually ...
A book that is going to bother most readers, and infuriate nearly everyone, no matter where you stand on the pornography debate. Very raw, very disturbing and not for most. While I was glad to have this book written, and seeing the damage that gonzo porn can do -- gonzo porn is very violent, very mi...
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