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

    By Pamela Paul

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    "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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2007
    ISBN9781429900799
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    Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
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    Pamela Paul

    Pamela Paul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and oversees books coverage at The New York Times. She is also the host of the weekly podcast, Inside The New York Times Book Review. Prior to joining the Times, she was a contributor to Time magazine and The Economist; her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Slate, and Vogue. She is the author of My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues; By the Book; Parenting, Inc.; Pornified; and The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony.

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    • 4/5
      A interesting read on how porn can impact our relationships and lives.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A must read for anyone keen on understanding the crisis we are living in.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Very significant book when it comes to understanding the destruction pornography causes relationships.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I started reading this knowing I was not going to agree with anything in it, and turns out, I was right! Very one-sided and has many misuses of statistics.