With a sexy fetish boot on the cover that teases you with kinky sex imagery, Gail Dines’ new book “Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality” looks primed to validate everyone’s wildest fears about pornography. Dines prefers to shock people into trusting her opinions and beliefs about porn and human sexual relationships at face value,…
There are no unbiased studies that have shown, proven or provide a factual basis for the belief that viewing pornography is a “gateway drug” for anything. Some organizations and porn addiction pundit (such as Doug Weiss of Addicted.com) attempt to support this claim with pseudo-science such as suggesting – but never proving in unbiased studies…
“Only People Who Can’t Have A “Real” Relationship Watch Porn” This is one of the most hurtful myths that shames people into sexual isolation. Saying that anyone who masturbates to fantasy, or uses anything to enhance masturbation, is somehow flawed, emotionally crippled, mentally ill, or worse – hopeless and unable to connect intimately in a…
Fear: Porn will make me need harder — and harder — stuff Article warning for readers who are survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and trauma. There are no unbiased studies that have shown, proven or given any truth to the idea that viewing pornography is a “gateway drug” for anything. That’s like saying that someone…
You’ve probably heard assertions that “Watching porn makes men rape,” that is makes men sexually violent and aggressive, and that porn “turns men into child molesters.” Adult pornography is a voluntary arousal tool, like sexual fantasy (the imagination), erotic books, and sex toys (to name a few). Porn lacks the power to “make” anyone do…
Everyone has concerns about pornography. Many of us are told that there are very serious and scary problems, and consequences, associated with watching and enjoying porn. Some of us will look at one pornographic video and see something offensive, and never want to watch porn again. It’s true that everyone has concerns, and there is…
Stop Porn Culture (stoppornculture.org), founded and directed by radical feminist anti-porn activist Gail Dines, is among the more visible feminist anti-porn organizations in the United States. This page offers an alternative examination on perspectives that the organization presents. Stop Porn Culture makes the following claims: Stop Porn Culture states that the majority of porn performers…
The more some people tell us why we should think porn is bad, the more we see specific themes repeat in anti-porn values. Two of the strongest themes don’t seem to actually have much to do with pornography itself: namely misandry (hatred of men), and sexual xenophobia (uncontrollable hatred and fear of unfamiliar or unknown…
In 2011, The Atlantic ran an article that surprised — and outraged — many sex-savvy readers. “Hard Core: What Porn’s Ubiquity Says About Men and Women” by Natasha Vargas-Cooper surprised The Atlantic’s even-headed readers by depicting a pretty graphic, one-sided anti-porn argument. It just didn’t seem like an Atlantic article. Many people wondered what I…
In a great example of media propigating porn hysteria, the acclaimed PBS documentary series Frontline aired a show titled American Porn, Frontline’s own examination of the adult entertainment industry. It received a lot of hype and some pretty titillating pre-press. Articles written by journalists who saw advance copies gave us teasing tidbits that hinted at…