Pornland; How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality

Gail Dines

ISBN: 9780807044520

2010 by Beacon Press

Hardcover, 256 pages

Pornland; How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality takes an unflinching look at today’s porn industry. Although we are surrounded by pornographic images, many people are not aware of just how cruel and violent the industry is today. 

Pornland shows how competition in the industry and consumer desensitization have pushed porn toward hard core extremes. And, with the advent of the internet and other digital technologies, users don’t have to wander far to access porn; today, the average age of first viewing is about 11 for boys, and studies reveal that young men, who consume more porn than ever before, have difficulty forming healthy relationships. 

The book also looks at how our porn culture affects the way women and girls think about their bodies, their sexuality and their relationships. It argues that rather than sexually liberating or empowering us, porn offers us a plasticized, formulaic, generic version of sex that is boring, lacking in creativity and disconnected from emotion and intimacy.

WARNING! This book contains graphic and disturbing descriptions of the pornography industry.