Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
by Robert Jensen
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Author: Robert JensenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-01
ISBN: 089608776X
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: South End Press
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Book Review: A serious slice of context for porn users
Summary: 5 Stars
It was while ago since I read this book, but it helped me a lot in my own struggles with pornography which like many men became more and more compulsive with the almost infinite availability of pornographic imagery through the internet. This book tracks the path of porn use from its earliest manifestations and the cultural, technological and psychological boundaries which limited mens exposure and relationship to it, through to the home video and then internet revolutions which multiplied the industry and its users exponentially. It looks in depth at how the porn industry has fulfilled a certain aspect of the masculine desirous tendency by producing ever more degrading imagery which has ended up with the prevalent model of pornography being that of 'gonzo porn' cheap to make, brutal and utterly degrading. Robert Jensen challenges us to ask ourselves if we can truely see ourselves as empathic beings and still affirm the imbalance of power and masculine dominance so clearly demonstrated in pornographic imagery. This is a serious brave book, which draws on dialogue taken directly from porn films and interviews with performers/directors to reflect to us a psychology of dominance, which ultimately affirms the prevelant mainstream world view - that of the military industrial complex.
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