Watching Sex: How Men Really Respond to Pornography
 

Watching Sex: How Men Really Respond to Pornography

by David Loftus

The gulf between critics of pornography and those who use it seems unbridgeable. Not only do the two sides disagree about its effect on society and individual men and women, they cannot even agree on what it is. Where one finds objectification, subordination, degradation, and violence against women, the other sees beauty, fun, pleasure, female power and assertiveness, and fantasy. Freud... (read more)

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This is the kind of book that is very positive in the right hands, but could easily be misinterpretted in the wrong hands. Loftus does not unquestioningly prove that pornography never has a negative effect on men or women, and neither is he shrugging off the less than redeemable associations our culture has built around pornography. He just talked to a bunch of guys and poses the informal survey against commonly held beliefs about the inherent evil of porn. He isn't trying to bring down the...

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