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Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality takes an unflinching look at today’s porn industry: the stories woven into the images, the impact on our culture, the effects on us as men and women, the business machine that creates and markets porn, and the growing legitimacy of porn in mainstream media. Above all, Pornland examines the way porn shapes and limits sexual imaginations and behaviors.
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Including the latest research on prostitution and pornography, this essay anthology shows how the sex industries harm those within them while undermining the possibilities for gender justice, human equality, and stable sexual relationships. From sex industries survivors to social activists and theorists such as Taylor Lee, Adriene Sere, and Kristen Anderberg, this volume asses from a feminist perspective the racism, poverty, militarism, and corporate capitalism of selling sex through strip clubs, brothels, mail-order brides, and child pornography.
Not For Sale is edited by Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant.
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In his most personal and difficult book to date, Robert Jensen launches a powerful critique of mainstream pornography that promises to reignite one of the fiercest debates in contemporary feminism. At once alarming and thought-provoking, Getting Off asks tough but crucial questions about pornography, manhood, and paths toward genuine social justice.
Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity by Robert Jensen.
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A groundbreaking, comprehensive and compassionate resource. The Porn Trap is the first book to address the full range of pornography-related problems, which have skyrocketed since the explosion of the Internet in recent years. Based on interviews and dramatic true stories, this book provides help for everyone from the recreational “dabbler” to the compulsive addict, as well as partners of porn addicts.
The Porn Trap: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Problems Caused by Pornography by Wendy Maltz and Larry Maltz
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Female Sexual Slavery (1979) by Kathleen Barry; New York University Press. Available at Adall
The Prostitution of Sexuality (1995) by Kathleen Barry; New York University Press. Available at Adall
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975) by Susan Brownmiller; Fawcett Books. Available at Amazon
Transforming a Rape Culture, Revised Edition (2005) edited by Emilie Buchwald, Pamela R. Fletcher and Martha Roth; Milkweed Editions. Among the contributors are Gail Dines, D.A. Clarke, Michael Kimmel, and Andrea Dworkin. Available at Amazon
The Age of Sex Crime (1987) by Jane Caputi; Women’s Press. Available at Amazon or Adall
Pornography: the Production and Consumption of Inequality (1998) by Gail Dines, Robert Jensen and Ann Russo; Routledge. Available at Amazon
Letters from a War Zone (1988) by Andrea Dworkin; Lawrence Hill Books or Secker & Warburg. Available at Amazon or Barnes and Noble or Adall
Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women (1997) by Andrea Dworkin; Free Press. Available at Amazon
Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981) by Andrea Dworkin; E P Dutton, or Women’s Press Ltd. Available at Amazon or Barnes and Noble or Adall
Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics (1976) by Andrea Dworkin; Harper and Row or Women’s Press. Available at Adall
Woman Hating (1974) by Andrea Dworkin; E.P. Dutton or Plume. Available at Adall
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress (2003) edited by Melissa Farley; Haworth Maltreatment & Trauma Press. Among the contributors are Judith Lewis Herman, Donna Hughes, Margaret Baldwin, Christine Stark, Michelle Anderson, Vednita Carter, and Dorchen Leidholdt. Available at Amazon
Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada: Making the Connections (2007) by Melissa Farley; Prostitution Research & Education. Available at Prostitution Research & Education
Pornography: Driving the Demand in International Sex Trafficking (2007) edited by David E. Guinn and Julie DiCaro; Captive Daughters Media. Among the contributors are Catharine MacKinnon, Julie Bindel, Robert Jensen, Gail Dines, Neil Malamuth, Melissa Farley, Diana Russell, Vednita Carter, Christine Stark, Chyng Sun and Rebecca Whisnant. Available at Xlibris or Amazon
Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties (1993) edited by Catherine Itzin; Oxford University Press. Available at Amazon
AntiClimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution (1990) by Sheila Jeffreys; Women’s Press. Available at Amazon or Adall
Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West (2005) by Sheila Jeffreys; Routledge. Available at Amazon
The Idea of Prostitution (1997) by Sheila Jeffreys; Spinifex Press. Available at Amazon
Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (2007) by Robert Jensen; South End Press. Available at Amazon or South End Press
The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help (2006) by Jackson Katz; Source Books. Available at Amazon
Men Confront Pornography (1991) edited by Michael S. Kimmel; Meridian Books, or Crown Pub. Available at Amazon or Adall
The Price We Pay: The Case Against Racist Speech, Hate Propaganda, and Pornography (1995) edited by Laura Lederer and Richard Delgado; New York: Hill & Wang. Among the contributors are Wendy Stock, Ann Simonton, Evelina Giobbe, Andrea Dworkin, John Stoltenberg, and Dorchen Leidholdt. Available at Barnes and Noble or Adall
Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography (1980) edited by Laura Lederer; William Morrow & Co, or Quill. Among the contributors are Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dworkin, Audrey Lorde, Diana Russell, Kathleen Barry, and Susan Brownmiller. Available at Barnes and Noble or Adall
The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism (1990) edited by Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond; The Athene series, Pergamon Press. Among contributors are Catharine MacKinnon, Twiss Butler, Phyllis Chesler, Evelina Giobbe, Mary Daly, Andrea Dworkin, Susan Cole, and Sheila Jeffreys. Available at Barnes and Noble or Adall
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (2005) by Ariel Levy; Free Press. Available at Amazon
Ordeal (the truth behind “Deep Throat”) (1980) by Linda Lovelace, with Mike McGrady; Citadel Press. Available at Amazon
Out of Bondage (1986) by Linda Lovelace, with Mike McGrady; Berkley Books. The follow-up to Ordeal. Available at Amazon
Only Words (1993) by Catharine A. MacKinnon; Harvard University Press. Available at Amazon
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues (2006) by Catharine A. MacKinnon; Bellknap Harvard. Available at Amazon
In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (1997) edited by Catharine A. MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin; Harvard University Press. Available at Amazon
Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws (2005) by Catharine A. MacKinnon; Belknap Harvard Press. Available at Amazon
Pornography and Sexual Aggression (1984) edited by Neil M. Malamuth and Edward Donnerstein; Academic Press. Available at Adall
Pornified: How Pornography is Damaging our Lives, our Relationships and our Families (2005) by Pamela Paul; Owl Books. Available at Amazon
Against Pornography: The Evidence of Harm (1993) by Diana E.H. Russell; Russell Publications. Available at Russell Publications or Adall
Dangerous Relationships: Pornography, Misogyny, and Rape (1998) by Diana E.H. Russell; Sage Publications. Available at Barnes and Noble or Sage
Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography (1993) edited by Diana E. H. Russell; Athene series, Teachers College Press. Among the contributors are Evelina Giobbe, John Stoltenberg, Katherine brady, Charlene Senn, and Nikki Craft. Available at Adall or Teachers College Press
Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography (2004) edited by Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant; Spinifex. Among the contributors are Sheila Jeffreys, Robert Jensen, Gail Dines, Melissa Farley, Vednita Carter, Andrea Dworkin, D.A. Clarke, and Donna M. Hughes. Available at Spinifex or Amazon
Refusing to Be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice (1989) by John Stoltenberg; Taylor & Francis, Inc or Routledge or Meridian. Available at Barnes and Noble or Amazon or Amazon UK [International shipping available]
The End of Manhood: Parables on Sex and Selfhood (1993) by John Stoltenberg; UCL Press. Available at Amazon
What Makes Pornography “Sexy”? (1994) by John Stoltenberg; Milkweed Editions. Available at Amazon
Pornography: Research Advances and Policy Considerations (1989) edited by Dolf Zillman and Jennings Bryant; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Available at Adall
