Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families - Softcover

Paul, Pamela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805081321 ISBN 13: 9780805081329

Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL, 2006

Synopsis

Porn 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.

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Review:

"Pornified is rife with tales of Americans experiencing a new level of sexual pathos, filled with snapshots of surreptitious lives: it is as compelling as it is troubling. A provocative book, sure to stir debate and reflection." --Margaret Talbot, senior fellow, New American Foundation, and staff writer, The New Yorker

"Pamela Paul convincingly and sometimes shockingly details the effects on men, women, and children living in a 'pornified' world. Her book should be a wake-up call for parents and should change the way we view--and rationalize viewing--pornography today. As Paul makes clear, porn is not 'cool, ' or 'liberating, ' or basically benign. It is a poison eroding relationships between men and women and darkening our children's horizons." --Judith Warner, author of Perfect Madness

"This is a quietly forceful book. It helps everyone--from libertarian to moralist--by offering a common ground from which to proceed: pornography is one more alienating product of a consumer culture, and in some ways a particularly lonely one. By definition it is selfish. That doesn't mean it needs to be banned; it does mean we need to think about what it's doing to each of us, and to our shared society." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Enough

"Pornified is rife with the tales of Americans experiencing a new level of sexual pathos, filled with snapshots of surreptitious lives: it is as compelling as it is troubling. A provocative book, sure to stir debate and reflection." --Alissa Quart, author of Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers

"A sharp rebuke to porn's glamorization." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"An alarming, thought-provoking overview of today's cyber-sexual society." --The Seattle Times

"Pamela Paul sets out to scare readers about the effects of pornography on American society, and she succeeds mightily." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

About the Author:

Pamela Paul is a contributor to Time magazine and the author of The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony. Formerly a senior editor at American Demographics, she writes for such publications as Psychology Today, Self, Marie Claire, Ladies' Home Journal, The Economist, and The New York Times Book Review. She lives in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0805081321
• ISBN 13: 9780805081329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320