Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality

Informationen zum Autor Gail Dines is professor of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College. The author of two previous books and a regular commentator on TV and radio, Dines has been covered in Newsweek, Time, USA Today, the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts . Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Porn and the Industrialization of Sex xv One Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler: Paving the Way for Today's Porn Industry Two Pop Goes the Porn Culture: Mainstreaming Porn Three From the Backstreet to Wall Street: The Big Business of Porn Four Grooming for Gonzo: Becoming a Man in a Porn Culture Five Leaky Images: How Porn Seeps into Men's Lives Six Visible or Invisible: Growing Up Female in a Porn Culture Seven Racy Sex, Sexy Racism: Porn from the Dark Side Eight Children: The Final Taboo Conclusion Fighting Back Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Gail Dines is professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College. The author of two previous books and a regular commentator on TV and radio, Dines has been covered in Newsweek, Time, USA Today, the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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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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Preface

Introduction Porn and the Industrialization of Sex xv

One Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler: Paving the Way for Today’s Porn Industry

Two Pop Goes the Porn Culture: Mainstreaming Porn

Three From the Backstreet to Wall Street: The Big Business of Porn

Four Grooming for Gonzo: Becoming a Man in a Porn Culture

Five Leaky Images: How Porn Seeps into Men’s Lives

Six Visible or Invisible: Growing Up Female in a Porn Culture

Seven Racy Sex, Sexy Racism: Porn from the Dark Side

Eight Children: The Final Taboo

Conclusion Fighting Back

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index