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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 Pornlandβthe culmination of her lifeβs workβDines 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, itβs no surprise that young people are consuming more porn than ever. But, as Dines shows, todayβs porn is strikingly different from yesterdayβs 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 productsβlike teen sex, torture porn, and gonzoβin 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 industryβone that reaps more profits than the film and music industries combined. Like Big Tobaccoβwith its powerful lobbying groups and sophisticated business practicesβporn companies donβt 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 pornβs omnipresence has become a public health concern we can no longer ignore.
 Media BuzzOn Point - April 12, 2011
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