Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Pornland takes an unflinching look at pornography and its effect on our lives, showing that today's pornography 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 ever more hard-core, violent, sexist, and racist.
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 Dines looks at pornography and its effect on our lives. Astonishingly, the average age of first viewing porn is now eleven and a half years for boys, and with the advent of the Internet, it's no surprise that young people are consuming more pornography than ever.
2010 | ISBN 9781876756871 | Paperback | 227 x 150 mm | 234 pp
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Reviews
...a measured, persuasive case...
—Fiona Capp, The Age
Pornland is well researched, matter-of-fact and shocking!
—Penny Mulvey, The Melbourne Anglican
Gail Dines draws on years of research to reveal just how extreme the porn industry has become. She takes readers deep into the world of hardcore porn, describing one nightmarish scene after another...the material she covers is truly shocking.
—Nathan Harden
Thoroughly researched and forcefully argued, Pornland is a must-read. From the intricate linking of the porn industry with Fortune 500 companies to behind the scenes of Girls Gone Wild, Dines makes eye-opening connections and breaks new ground with every chapter.
—Chyng Sun, associate professor of media studies, New York University
Pornland takes a quantum leap beyond the tired pro-porn vs. anti-porn debates of recent decades. It will now be the starting point for serious discussions about how porn shapes and distorts social and sexual norms. Gail Dines understands both the economics and cultural power of the pornography industry perhaps better than anyone ever has. This is accessible and grounded social analysis at its finest.
—Jackson Katz, Ph.D.
Dines has written a treatise that is equally powerful and disturbing. She asks tough questions and makes uncomfortable observations, but the results ought to be game-changing: a world in which we have healthy attitudes about the feminine, the masculine, about sex and about ourselves. A world far-removed from Pornland.
—Sacramento Book Review
If you have ever been in any doubt that pornography is hate speech read Pornland.
—Julie Bindel
We're now so pornography-saturated that our capacity for sexual delight is being brutalized. Gail Dines brilliantly exposes porn's economics, pervasiveness, and impact with scholarship as impeccable as her tone is reasonable. This book will change your life.
—Robin Morgan
As a culture we have become desensitised to its degrading images, while remaining ignorant of the insidious logic of the industry and its effects of the human person. We may just need to be shocked into action.
—Pauline Cooper-Ioelu, MercatorNet
Table of Contents
Introduction Porn and the Industrialization of Sex
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
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index