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Find full and original article here: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/boredom.htm by Robert Jensen September 24, 2008 The dirty secret of the porn industry is that, with a finite number of ways that human bodies can fit together, their product is repetitive and dull by definition. So they must resort to sexualizing degradation itself. There is a finite number of […]
Find original article posting here: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/marines.htm By Robert Jensen Below is an edited transcript of the words Robert Jensen offered to 1,000 Marine non-commissioned officers (corporals and sergeants) at a conference, “Heroes and Healthy Families” in June 2010. Porn owns you: Problems with online pornography [Remarks to the 2010 “Heroes and Healthy Families Conference,” New Bern, […]
Find full article here: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/shouldidoit.htm July 2, 2011. by Robert Jensen Usually I address my writing about pornography to men, who are the majority of the consumers of sexually explicit material. But after a recent conversation with a female friend, I was reminded of how often women who raise concerns about the sexism of pornography are […]
Find full and original posting of article here: http://www.counterpunch.org/2007/04/14/racy-sex-sexy-racism/ By Gail Dines September 17, 2007 So Don Imus finally pushed the envelope too far by calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy headed hos”. This lethal combination of racism and sexism galvanized African-American and women’s groups, media watch-dog organizations and members of the public into action. […]
Full and original article found here: http://www.alternet.org/story/146910/3-d_nude_centerfolds_playboy_tries_to_survive_in_world_filled_with_hard-core_gonzo_porn?page=entire By Gail Dines May 19, 2010 | When Playboy first came out in 1953, many thought that Hefner was on his way to prison. The online porn of today makes the magazine seem quaint. Playboy’s June issue features a 3D centerfold – complete with the requisite geeky 3D spectacles. This latest […]
Full, original article posted here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/01/feminists-pornification-of-women By Gail Dines and Julia Long December 1, 2011 Don’t mix up feminists fighting the the corporate media with rightwing attempts to police sex “Sexualisation” has become a much-debated issue in recent years, and a noticeable feature is the assumption that feminists who oppose sexual objectification are generating a “moral […]
If these numbers are accurate, here’s a very sobering statistic. Every year for the past decade there have been roughly 1 million divorces in the United States. If half of the people divorcing claim pornography as the culprit, that means there are 500,000 marriages annually that are failing due to pornography.
The media is conspicuously failing to live up to its role with respect to the porn debate. The latest exhibit: recent coverage of Melinda Tankard Reist and her work against pornography.
The great liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that freedom of speech matters because it is through competing views that we approach a better understanding of truth. But we need a variety of views, properly covered, for this result.
VICTORIAN children as young as five are being referred to specialist programs to address sexually abusive behaviour – and the number of minors exhibiting such behaviour is exploding.
The availability of pornography through portable devices drastically affects a child’s understanding of acceptable sexual behaviour, according to experts, and is being blamed for the rapid escalation in cases.
A look at how human trafficking victims fare in life and love after surviving the sex trade. Samantha* is 30 years old. She is a makeup artist, a nanny, a professing Christian and an advocate against human trafficking. This cause is near and dear to her heart because she has been there herself. At the […]