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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is fantastic; academic, well-referenced, challenging, and personal.
I could not have asked for more on the topic. Jensen raises pertinent and interesting questions about pornography, men's use of it, and the adverse effects that happen as a consequence of both working in it and using it (many of which are denied by the industry).
I have heard so many arguments defending porn in my life, and this book proves that I was right to argue against it. It shows that everything I suspected was true. And it's not as though Jensen is simply taking the worst elements and exaggerating them: he states that most of his research is based on random selections from the most popular 250 porn films, and on selections by staff of sex shops which they think sell the best.
As Jensen states, being against porn does not mean being against sex. Personally, what I am against is the relentless "woman as object, woman does what man wants, woman is degraded, woman is humiliated, woman exists solely for male pleasure" rhetoric found in the vast, vast majority of porn. I hate it. And now I am satisfied that I am right to hate it; not because of my subjective opinions, but because of the objective realities that Jensen points out.
I have a feeling that people giving this book bad reviews are perhaps afraid to confront the very real impact that porn affects every one of us -- men, women, pornstars, porn consumers, single, and couples.
These issues NEED to be confronted, and Jensen does an admirable job.
Everyone should read this.
I could not have asked for more on the topic. Jensen raises pertinent and interesting questions about pornography, men's use of it, and the adverse effects that happen as a consequence of both working in it and using it (many of which are denied by the industry).
I have heard so many arguments defending porn in my life, and this book proves that I was right to argue against it. It shows that everything I suspected was true. And it's not as though Jensen is simply taking the worst elements and exaggerating them: he states that most of his research is based on random selections from the most popular 250 porn films, and on selections by staff of sex shops which they think sell the best.
As Jensen states, being against porn does not mean being against sex. Personally, what I am against is the relentless "woman as object, woman does what man wants, woman is degraded, woman is humiliated, woman exists solely for male pleasure" rhetoric found in the vast, vast majority of porn. I hate it. And now I am satisfied that I am right to hate it; not because of my subjective opinions, but because of the objective realities that Jensen points out.
I have a feeling that people giving this book bad reviews are perhaps afraid to confront the very real impact that porn affects every one of us -- men, women, pornstars, porn consumers, single, and couples.
These issues NEED to be confronted, and Jensen does an admirable job.
Everyone should read this.
22 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is not what the critique of pornography needs. Everything about this book is misguided and unhelpful, from his style - which at times resembles tabloid style emotional blackmail - to his wholly unconvincing rehash of the Dworkinist assertion of man as rape incarnate. Jensen has precious little in the way of analysis that goes beyond personal anecdotes and descriptions of the content of hardcore films, which always end with a variation on the imperative to put yourself in the picture - imagine she was your daughter or how would you feel in the same situation etc. His critique is utterly lacking in the wide ranging analysis of consumer culture which pornography is situated within and instead focuses on a man-negating hysteria which resorts to quasi-religious rhetoric to escape its dead end.
In the beginning he emphasises the links between the porn industry and consumer capitalism in general, and highlights the need for the questions addressed to pornography to also be addressed to society as a whole, yet at the end point he resorts to a discussion of "sex as an unfathomable mystery to honour" and a bizarre description of "people touching with light". There is none of the cutting psychoanalytic or sociological analysis that would open doors to a genuinely far reaching critique of porn and gender roles. Jensen clearly is a troubled man, evident by the amount of personal "journey" material that takes up the book and the self hating conclusions he draws from them, frankly at times it's laughable.
This is not a serious work and does nothing but highlight the dead ends that resulted from the radical feminist critique in the 1980s. This area of research deserves a lot more than Jensen is capable of delivering.
In the beginning he emphasises the links between the porn industry and consumer capitalism in general, and highlights the need for the questions addressed to pornography to also be addressed to society as a whole, yet at the end point he resorts to a discussion of "sex as an unfathomable mystery to honour" and a bizarre description of "people touching with light". There is none of the cutting psychoanalytic or sociological analysis that would open doors to a genuinely far reaching critique of porn and gender roles. Jensen clearly is a troubled man, evident by the amount of personal "journey" material that takes up the book and the self hating conclusions he draws from them, frankly at times it's laughable.
This is not a serious work and does nothing but highlight the dead ends that resulted from the radical feminist critique in the 1980s. This area of research deserves a lot more than Jensen is capable of delivering.
12 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Porn never really held much appeal for me because I don't enjoy seeing women being raped for money, its sado-masturbation material. Jensen seems to be the one man that actually sees women as human beings.
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