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    Cover of Pornland

    Pornland

    Gail Dines · 2010

    This book takes an unflinching and intimate look at porn -- its hard-core and racist content, its unchecked profits, and how it distorts our identities. 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's Playboy. 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. - Publisher.

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    1. l0stb0yNov 2013
      Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality by Gail Dines.

      Should be essential reading for everyone, especially men, in this day and age.

      http://www.amazon.com/Pornland-How-Porn-Hijacked-Sexuality/d...

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    2. bitopsNov 2013
      That future is already here. Reading the book "Pornland" by Gail Dines was both shocking and informative. You can be horrified right now at what kids are consuming.
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