Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality [Paperback]

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’sPlayboy. 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.Preface

IntroductionPorn and the Industrialization of Sex xv

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

TwoPop Goes the Porn Culture: Mainstreaming Porn

ThreeFrom the Backstreet to Wall Street: The Big Business of Porn

FourGrooming for Gonzo: Becoming a Man in a Porn Culture

FiveLeaky Images: How Porn Seeps into Men’s Lives

SixVisible or Invisible: Growing Up Female in a Porn Culture

SevenRacy Sex, Sexy Racism: Porn from the Dark Side

EightChildren: The Final Taboo

ConclusionFighting Back

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index“Pornland. . . will now be the starting point for serious discussions about how porn shapes and distorts social and sexual norms. Dines understands both the economics and cultural power of the pornography industry perhaps better than anyone ever has.”—Jackson Katz, author ofThe Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help

“[A] thoughtful analysis of pornography’s infiltration into the American economy, its detrimental effects on the sexual and emotional health of women and men, and its ability to perpetuate both sexism and racism.”—Veronica Arellano,Library Journal
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