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Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families

Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families

Pamela Paul

Language: English

Pages: 320

ISBN: 0805077456

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


"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.

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pornography is one of several threatening sexual perversions, while feminists typically defend and support homosexuality. Cultural conservatives oppose the dissemination of sexual information, while feminists are the authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves. The result is that both sides have lost what may otherwise be a natural, broad-based following among women. Those on the Right moralize about sex and erotica and the state of the family in general, thereby alienating women who want to celebrate

S. Kimmel (New York: Crown Publishers, 1990), p. 125. 5. D. Zillmann, “Pornografie,” in Lehrbuch der Medienpsychologie, ed. R. Mangold, P. Vorderer, and G. Bente (Göttingen, Germany: Hogrefe Verlag, 2004), pp. 565–85. 6. Victor B. Cline, “Pornography’s Effects on Adults and Children” (New York: Morality in Media, n.d.). 7. Jennifer Schneider, “Effects of Cybersex Addiction on the Family,” Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity 7 (2000): 31–58. 8. The Truth about Pornography 1.

good way. I like getting off on it when I’m alone and it’s also a great foreplay tool.” Women like Christina attribute a number of benefits to pornography—it helps them explore their sexual side and broadens their ideas, giving them fodder for real-life sex, including positions, role-playing, and attitudes. In the 2004 Elle-MSNBC.com poll, 35 percent of women who had viewed adult content on the Internet said it helped them find “more ways to look or act sexy” and 28 percent claimed that it

Internet and there’s nothing wrong with it.’ Most recently, students have become radical supporters of pornography. I didn’t used to see that at all from young men. It’s a huge shift in attitude.” At Jacksonville University in Florida, students were reprimanded for installing a stripper’s pole in an on-campus apartment and hosting a party in which drunken freshmen females were asked to compete for a $100 Victoria’s Secret gift certificate by dancing on it while being photographed.17 According to

college-age men and women, and recent graduates, at colleges nationwide, guys are known to scribble on their dorm room message boards: “Leave me alone, I’m watching porn.” Boys are into porn, and girls, they claim, should be in on the game. At Scarsdale High School, a videotape of two fourteen-year-old female students in a sexual encounter was widely disseminated among the student body. In the film, an off-camera boy urged them on. “Everybody does it these days,” he cajoled. Another onlooker

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