Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families

Pamela Paul

Apr 2007 · Sold by Macmillan

About this ebook

"Strips porn of its culture-war claptrap . . . Pornified may stand as a Kinsey Report for our time."—San Francisco Chronicle

Porn in America is everywhere—not just in cybersex and Playboy but in popular video games, advice columns, and reality television shows, and on the bestseller lists. Even more striking, as porn has become affordable, accessible, and anonymous, it has become increasingly acceptable—and a big part of the personal lives of many men and women.

In this controversial and critically acclaimed book, Pamela Paul argues that as porn becomes more pervasive, it is destroying our marriages and families as well as distorting our children's ideas of sex and sexuality. Based on more than one hundred interviews and a nationally representative poll, Pornified exposes how porn has infiltrated our lives, from the wife agonizing over the late-night hours her husband spends on porn Web sites to the parents stunned to learn their twelve-year-old son has seen a hardcore porn film.

Pornified is an insightful, shocking, and important investigation into the costs and consequences of pornography for our families and our culture.

Ratings and reviews

This book was a helpful resource I used as one of my undergraduate research papers on the negative effects of pornography on those who use it to achieve sexual gratification, and the unrealistic expectations that develop leading to increasing failure between sexual partners. The author supports her thesis with facts and a few anecdotes that are shocking, not because the sexual experience related is unique, but, because it reveals things men and women have allowed to become habituated fetishes that, in the real world, are a sure tell that one's partner has derived a fetish (or simply a curiosity) in having intimate relations asking one to shave in a new way or leave the lights on. This sounds funny at first, however, a few generations are now suffering severe depression and relational problems as a result of easy exposure to porn, and/or having worked in the porn business.

Interesting perspectives here, but incredibly repetitive layout. Boring read overall.

PORNO is simply HEAVEN on Earth .

About the author

Pamela Paul is a contributor to Time magazine and the author of The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony. Formerly a senior editor at American Demographics, she writes for such publications as Psychology Today, Self, Marie Claire, Ladies' Home Journal, The Economist, and The New York Times Book Review. She lives in New York.