Dines, Gail.

Pornland : how porn has hijacked our sexuality / Gail Dines. - Boston : Beacon Press, c2010. - xxxi, 204 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Porn and the industrialization of sex -- Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler : paving the way for today's porn industry -- Pop goes the porn culture : mainstreaming porn -- From the backstreet to Wall Street : the big business of porn -- Grooming for gonzo : becoming a man in a porn culture -- Leaky images : how porn seeps into men's lives -- Visible or invisible : growing up female in a porn culture -- Racy sex, sexy racism : porn from the dark side -- Children : the final taboo -- Fighting back.

Dines illustrates how today's porn has become absorbed into pop culture and, because of that, how the porn industry has turned even more hard-core, creating profitable niche marketsulike oteen sexo and otorture pornouin their quest to entice a generation of desensitized users.

9780807044520 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0807044520 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780807001547 (paperback : alk. paper)

2009046250

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015606025 Uk


Pornography.
Pornography--Social aspects.
Sex.
Sex--Social aspects.

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