Pornified : how pornography is transforming our lives, our relationships, and our families / Pamela Paul.

By:

Paul, Pamela

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Times Books, 2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 304 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

0805077456

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DDC classification:

363.47 PAU

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Contents:

A guy thing: why men look at porn -- How we got here: life in the porn lane -- Me and my porn: how pornography affects men -- Porn stars, lovers, and wives: how women see pornography -- You and me and pornography: how porn affects relationships -- Born into porn: kids in a pornified culture -- Fantasy and reality: pornography compulsion -- The truth about pornography -- Conclusion: the censure-not-censor solution.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	363.47 PAU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100320309

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Strips porn of its culture-war claptrap . . . Pornified may stand as a Kinsey Report for our time." - San Francisco Chronicle Porn in America is everywhere - not just in cybersex and Playboy but in popular video games, advice columns, and reality television shows, and on the bestseller lists. Even more striking, as porn has become affordable, accessible, and anonymous, it has become increasingly acceptable - and a big part of the personal lives of many men and women. In this controversial and critically acclaimed book, Pamela Paul argues that as porn becomes more pervasive, it is destroying our marriages and families as well as distorting our children's ideas of sex and sexuality. Based on more than one hundred interviews and a nationally representative poll, Pornified exposes how porn has infiltrated our lives, from the wife agonizing over the late-night hours her husband spends on porn Web sites to the parents stunned to learn their twelve-year-old son has seen a hardcore porn film. Pornified is an insightful, shocking, and important investigation into the costs and consequences of pornography for our families and our culture.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-289) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Author's Note (p. xi)
Introduction: A Pornified World (p. 1)
1 A Guy Thing: Why Men Look at Porn (p. 12)
2 How We Got Here: Life in the Porn Lane (p. 49)
3 Me and My Porn: How Pornography Affects Men (p. 72)
4 Porn Stars, Lovers, and Wives: How Women See Pornography (p. 107)
5 You and Me and Pornography: How Porn Affects Relationships (p. 138)
6 Born into Porn: Kids in a Pornified Culture (p. 172)
7 Fantasy and Reality: Pornography Compulsion (p. 211)
8 The Truth about Pornography (p. 239)
Conclusion: The Censure-Not-Censor Solution (p. 260)
Notes (p. 277)
Acknowledgments (p. 291)
Index (p. 293)

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

Pornified statistics: The Pornified Man • Preoccupied. Men look at pornography more than they look at any other subject online. • Dissatisfied. Less than a third of men say pornography improves their sex lives, yet many find themselves getting pulled into harder and harder pornography to keep the initial buzz going. The Pornified Woman • Reshaped. Six out of ten women state that pornography affects how men expect them to look and behave (and four in ten men agree). • Betrayed. One-third of women see men using pornography as cheating in absolutely all cases. The Pornified Couple • Distant. Nearly half of women describe fallout in relationships because of pornography; only one-third of men say the same thing. Couples describe a breakdown in closeness and a growing absence of trust. • Broken. Of the sudden rise in divorces related to the Internet, more than half were the result of a spouse looking at excessive amounts of pornography online. The Pornified Family • Exposed. Among eighteen-to-twenty-four-year-olds, who came of age with Internet pornography, more than half say it's hard to go online without seeing porn. Eleven million Internet pornography users are under the age of eighteen. • Sexed up. A quarter of adults believe that the greatest effect porn is having on kids is it's making kids more likely to have sex earlier than they might have. Excerpted from Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families by Pamela Paul All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.