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How Porn Has Hijacked our Sexuality
Beacon
July 2010
On Sale: June 29, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 0807044520
EAN: 9780807044520
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the
porn industry for over two decades. She attends industry
conferences, interviews producers and performers, and speaks
to hundreds of men and women each year about their
experience with porn. Students and educators describe her
work as "life changing." In Pornland—the culmination of her life’s work—Dines takes
an unflinching look at porn and its affect on our lives.
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. But, as 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. To differentiate their products
in a glutted market, producers have created profitable niche
products—like teen sex, torture porn, and gonzo—in order to
entice a generation of desensitized users. Going from the backstreets to Wall Street, Dines traces the
extensive money trail behind this multibillion-dollar
industry—one that reaps more profits than the film and music
industries combined. Like Big Tobacco—with its powerful
lobbying groups and sophisticated business practices—porn
companies don’t simply sell products. Rather they influence
legislators, partner with mainstream media, and develop new
technologies like streaming video for cell phones. Proving
that this assembly line of content is actually limiting our
sexual freedom, Dines argues that porn’s omnipresence has
become a public health concern we can no longer ignore.
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