She looks at issues like the real-world effects of porn by drawing comparisons to the plastic surgery industry. In her chapter Leaky Images: How Porn Seeps into Men’s Lives, Dines examines the argument that porn is just entertainment citing that it is naive to think that fantasy can somehow remain separate from consumers’ actual sex lives. Dines considers porn to take place in “a parallel universe where love and intimacy are replaced by violence and the incessant abuse of women.” The majority of scenes from fifty top rented pornographic movies contained physical and verbal abuse in fact, 90 percent of scenes contained at least one aggressive act. The next few chapters are devoted to myth busting. Dines says that underestimating the power of this well-oiled machine is the biggest mistake consumers of porn often make.Īrgument #2: Porn is More Than Just Fantasy The most recent of these innovations being streaming video on computers and cell phones, allowing users to buy porn in private without embarrassing trips to seedy shops.Ī multi-billion dollar business, content has been shaped by the contours of sophisticated marketing, state of the art technology, and competition within the industry. Dines walks readers from post World War II America to the present, describing the evolution of mass porn distribution as a key driver of new technological innovations. Informative and well researched, the first three chapters describe the emergence of the porn industry. But before judging, we should understand her arguments.Īrgument #1: Pornography is First and Foremost a Business Those who protest are deemed anti-sex instead of anti-violence.ĭines has been portrayed as an uptight, anti-sex, victim feminist. That means there is an entire generation of young people who think sex ends with a money shot to the face.” She points to the violence, rape and trauma embedded in mainstream pornography as cleverly wrapped in a sexual cloak, rendering it invisible. She opens the subject with “The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-olds have viewed pornography online. In her latest book, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked our Sexuality, Dines challenges the idea that the porn industry is in the business of “making love.” Claiming that mainstream porn is in the business of “making hate,” sociology and women’s studies professor Gail Dines at Wheelock College, Boston, has been a voice in the anti-pornography movement for two decades.
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