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The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Obscene Obsession
Maybe someday
30
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
20/100Critics
40/100Scholars
Author:
Kelsy Burke
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Date:
July 12, 2022
A big think look at pornography in all its facets, historical, religious, and cultural.
What The Reviewers Say
... eye-opening, fair-minded and largely evenhanded.
Burke is critical of anti-porn adherents who employ scaremongering to bolster their movement, but her book is a balanced presentation of pornography sympathizers and opponents and the valid aspects of their arguments; she even highlights common ground between them. Key to Burke’s discussion are her stances that a person’s view of pornography is inseparable from their individual experiences, and that pornography can’t ever be fully decoupled from wider societal issues of gender, race, morality, and bodily autonomy.
... a thoroughly researched and refreshingly readable albeit academic viewpoint of the long-standing debate over pornography in the U.S.
... compassionate and well-balanced.
