Lesley Rich, general counsel for Capital Video, claims that their Amazing.net “stores are oriented more as a ‘sensuality’ style business, with a focus on couples and women in the adult market.” As Valentine’s Day approaches, let’s peel back the veneer of love at Amazing.net and examine the reality.Amazing.net is jealous of your human relationships.It wants […]
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Influence of Porn on Sex Practices: Dispatches from the Field (explicit language)
Many of our opponents argue that porn has little influence on behavior. The blogger GruntDoc, for example, claims “these images are harmless. No image has ever gotten up off a page and caused harm to anyone.”Let’s check in with Jezebel on the subject. Jezebel is a busy website devoted to “Celebrity, Sex, Fashion. Without airbrushing”. […]
New Study: Men Still Outpace Women in Porn Consumption
A new study out of Brigham Young University finds that men still substantially outpace women in porn consumption. 86.1% of the male respondents said they had viewed porn in the past year, versus 31.0% of the women. Among the men, 21.3% said they viewed porn every day or almost every day, versus just 1.0% of the […]
Hugo Schwyzer Reviews “Getting Off” by Robert Jensen
Hugo Schwyzer has kindly given us permission to reprint Part One of his three-part review of Getting Off by Robert Jensen. You may read Part Two here and Part Three here. Part one of a series on “Getting Off”: masculinity, pornography, and the truth of what we don’t want to face …I started reading Robert Jensen’s Getting […]
Green Sexuality Is a Concept Worth Exploring – Voices of American Sexuality Blog
Voices of American Sexuality is a blog hosted by American Sexuality Magazine and the National Sexuality Resource Center. They noticed our November 25 press release, which mentions our concept of “green sexuality”: Before our loyal readers tear me apart, I think it’s worth exploring this concept a bit more in good faith. Here at American […]
Evidence Assessment: The Role of Pornography in the Physical Abuse of Women
The UK Ministry of Justice recently released a comprehensive survey of research on the impact of porn, with a focus on “extreme pornographic material”. We would like to call particular attention to the section on “Studies of victimised women” (p.18-19): The majority of research on the effects of pornographic material depicting explicit serious sexual violence […]
Letter to Harper’s: “Boys on the Side”
The November 2007 issue of Harper’s publishes a letter from NPN’s Jendi Reiter, “Boys on the Side”. Reiter is responding to a September article by Laura Kipnis, “Lust and Disgust: A short history of prudery, feminist and otherwise”. In her article, Kipnis reviews Intercourse (Andrea Dworkin), Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It’s Not Bad […]
2005: “No more hotel porn for Swedish government officials”
On 4/6/05, The Local, “Sweden’s News in English”, announced that Swedish civil servants, soldiers and politicians would be required to choose porn-free hotels whenever possible. “In the military, we have been working to curb attitudes that are degrading to women, which in no way can be accepted,” [Major General Åke Jansson] said.The initiative stemmed from […]
Wall Street Journal: “What’s at the Heart of Happiness?”
Sunday’s online edition of The Wall Street Journal summarizes current research into happiness: Studies have found that married folks are happier than those who are single.“Marriage provides two sources of happiness,” says Andrew Oswald, an economics professor at England’s Warwick University. “One is sex and the other is friendship. Marriage has one of the largest […]
Infidelity: A Widespread Practice with Lasting Harm; Promoted by Adult Enterprises
Today’s Republican publishes “INFIDELITY brings everlasting pain” by Chris Bynum. The full text of the article, syndicated by Newhouse News Service, can be found online at The Times-Picayune. Contrary to the impression you might get from porn, cheating in a marriage is no joke. The pain can go on a lot longer than the pleasure. […]