... 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.

... thought-provoking.