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.
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
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'Can sex films empower women? Following former home secretary Jacqui Smith's BBC Radio 5 documentary about pornography, Gail Dines, sociologist and author debates the issue with Anna Arrowsmith, a pornographic film-maker and former LibDem candidate...' --The Guardian, March 2011
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By David Levy
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The book provides an eye opening and in-depth examination of a key issue facing our culture. The book demonstrates how pervasive pornography is in the media, and how it's become a big business with a lot of power to shape the culture. Dr. Dines is clearly very passionate about this, and it comes through in her writing!
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By Steve
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Dines' study is a readable, accessible account of the dangerous direction that mainstream pornography is headed in. She nails a few myths about the industry which seem to be quite prevalent. Firstly, porn is a business: its about market shares and profit, although unlike selling popcorn, it involves exploiting (mainly) young girls for the benefit of middle-aged men. She is also very good at highlighting the fantasies that porn users construct to rationalise their porn use (in a manner not dissimilar to sexual offenders). Another myth of porn is that it is somehow progressive and liberating, although Dines shows, through the genre of 'inter-racial' porn, that porn exploits some of the most hackneyed and offensive racial stereotypes. One can take issue with Dines in some respects: what about porn made by women that is non-exploitative? This is a fair point, but any such porn that does exist is swamped by the nasty stuff, so Dines' point holds: she is talking about the mainstream, and it does appear that mainstream is getting harder and more extreme, pushing girls into more and more risky and dangerous acts (this is driven, of course, by the desire for profit, which must continue to recruit users who are jaded by the more 'vanilla' sexual practices). More worryingly, what does this increasingly violent mainstream porn say about society in general? How many more Josef Fritzls are out there? And what might the relation be between mainstream porn and a wider culture of sexualised violence?
One might make more rarified theoretical objections (what might the 'authentic' sexuality Dines calls for be like, for instance?) But this is nitpicking. Dines' main argument is sound, and it needs to be taken seriously.
One might make more rarified theoretical objections (what might the 'authentic' sexuality Dines calls for be like, for instance?) But this is nitpicking. Dines' main argument is sound, and it needs to be taken seriously.
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Those of us who have for years been acutely concerned about the effects of pornography on our way of life will find this book essential reading. I say that with a grimace - because Pornland is upsetting and alarming in equal measure. Prof Dines is uncompromising in her stance, and has the research to back it up. She has trawled unimaginable depths in order to produce a text which should shame all those who still think of porn as a bit of sexy fun. There are still plenty of those people about - all colluding with the commodification of sex in a multi-billion dollar trade which, increasingly, corrupts the minds of all those involved. Which means - horrifically - children as young as six. They are the ones who have seen 'gonzo' (which means abusive) porn on smart phones and tablets. Pornography is not longer a matter of sex or censorship. It is an issue of public health - and Prof Dines is a very courageous woman for continuing with her fight.
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very necessary book
i had great pleasure of hearing Gail talk last year and this book lived up to expectations. it is frightening and highly prescient
Published 1 month ago by Miss J C Milligan
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a brave work....
Gail Dine's sobering and important work exposes how cruel and debasing porn has become within the extreme market and influencing 'milder' forms of the genre. Read more
Published 14 months ago by emski
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A potentially useful discussion spoiled by ideological correctness
Gail Dines is a professor of sociology and women's studies, mother of one boy and girl and an anti-porn campaigner. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Paul Woodfine
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A Rather Large Contradiction.
The book is an interesting, highly subjective and personal view of the Porn Industry, and should be read as such. Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2011 by Mr. Matthew G. Buckley
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