Gender studies professor Hugo Schwyzer digs deep to reveal the subtle and lasting harm of porn to the viewer. Here he responds to Ethan of Crucial Minutiae. Ethan argues that porn is a harmless outlet for men who, craving variety, would otherwise “bug their girlfriends/wives for more sex” or “seek it elsewhere from strangers, prostitutes, […]
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My Boyfriend Loves Porn – What Should I Do?
Derek Johnson is a Certified Mental Health Professional and Certified Addiction Professional. Here he answers a question submitted by Ashley to All Experts, a website in the About group. Date: 3/19/2007Subject: pornQuestionok, i am 15 years old and i have a bf that is 19…in the past year or so, i have noticed that he […]
Testimony in Massachusetts: My Experiences with Men, Porn and Domestic Abuse (explicit)
Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.372-378). Blanket statements that porn shops are about “romance” or that porn “enhances couples sex lives” are hard to credit in light of stories like the one […]
Testimony in Los Angeles: Psychiatrist Rapes Patient as ‘Therapy’ for Her Inhibitions
Members of the Los Angeles County Commission for Women heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on April 22, 1985. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.353-354). Testimony of Elana Bowman I am a member of the WAVAW [Women Against Violence Against Women] Coordinating Committee [and] […]
Richard Wilbur…What Love Is
We note with sadness the passing of Charlotte Wilbur, wife of Cummington poet Richard Wilbur. Today’s Gazette writes, Married for 64 years, Charlotte and her husband shared an enduring love. Richard Wilbur, 86, who called his wife “my best reader,” said he viewed her life as poetry in motion and that she was often his […]
A New Category Debuts: Love and Beauty
There is so much that’s wrong with today’s porn that it’s easy for anti-porn activists to be in a bad mood most of the time. As Andrea Dworkin freely admitted, “I represent the morbid side of the women’s movement.” The public sees the anger and frustration, and many turn instead to the porn industry, which […]
Testimony in Indianapolis: Porn Teaches, Arouses Violent Behavior in Abuse Cases
Indianapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing of the Indianapolis City-County Council Adminstration Committee on April 14, 1984. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.281-282). Testimony of T. V. , a counselor in Indianapolis In ten years of counseling with men and women, […]
Certified Sex Therapist Marty Klein Wants You to Believe Porn Is Harmless
Many adult industry lawyers like Marc Randazza are not content to defend their clients on narrow constitutional grounds. They could say, for example, that yes this material is reprehensible but we must protect it so that more worthy speech will not be threatened. Instead, they apparently want you to believe that porn and the lifestyles […]
Time to Explore the Links Between Porn, Testosterone, Sexual Behavior and Violence
Not satisfied with the high degree of correlation between porn consumption and sexual callousness, our opponents keep pressing us to elaborate the mechanism that links porn and behavior. It looks like a clue lies in the role of testosterone. This hormone has many good qualities, but it is also linked with aggression and promiscuity. The […]
A Review of Can’t Buy My Love
NPN’s Jendi Reiter reviews Jean Kilbourne, Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel. This book was published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, New York City (1999). Ms. Kilbourne’s documentaries are distributed by Northampton’s own Media Education Foundation. Activist filmmaker and educator Jean Kilbourne has been internationally recognized for such documentaries […]