"Pornified is rife with tales of Americans
experiencing a new level of sexual pathos, filled with snapshots of
surreptitious lives: it is as compelling as it is troubling. A
provocative book, sure to stir debate and reflection."--Margaret
Talbot, senior fellow, New American Foundation, and staff writer,
The New Yorker
"Pamela Paul convincingly and sometimes shockingly details the
effects on men, women, and children living in a ''pornified''
world. Her book should be a wake-up call for parents and should
change the way we view--and rationalize viewing--pornography today.
As Paul makes clear, porn is not ''cool,'' or ''liberating,'' or
basically benign. It is a poison eroding relationships between men
and women and darkening our children''s horizons."--Judith Warner,
author of Perfect Madness
"This is a quietly forceful book. It helps everyone--from
libertarian to moralist--by offering a common ground from which to
proceed: pornography is one more alienating product of a consumer
culture, and in some ways a particularly lonely one. By definition
it is selfish. That doesn''t mean it needs to be banned; it does
mean we need to think about what it''s doing to each of us, and to
our shared society."--Bill McKibben, author of The End of
Nature and Enough
"Pornified is rife with the tales of Americans
experiencing a new level of sexual pathos, filled with snapshots of
surreptitious lives: it is as compelling as it is troubling. A
provocative book, sure to stir debate and reflection."
-- Alissa Quart, author of Branded: The Buying and Selling of
Teenagers
"A sharp rebuke to porn''s glamorization."--Los Angeles
Times Book Review
"An alarming, thought-provoking overview of today''s cyber-sexual
society."
--The Seattle Times
"Pamela Paul sets out to scare readers about the effects of
pornography on American society, and she succeeds
mightily."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch