Pornography's effect on relationships

[thefinerthingsinlife]

For my final project I plan to cover the issues of porns effect on relationships. I need to start reading around the subject, so far the books I have are:

Dangerous relationships: pornography, misogyny and rape - Diana Russell
Pornified - Pamela Paul
Pornography: men possessing women - Dworkin
Pornography : the production and consumption of inequalites.
Everyday Porn - Karen Boyles.

Are there any key books, websites, blogs etc. that could be useful? I'd be very grateful.

Gail Dines, Pornland - very up-to-date.

Pornland - Gail Dines - it touches on relationships throughout the book and explains who everyone's sexuality (especially the younger generation - by which I mean teens and early 20's) is being changed by porn.

Hah great minds and all!

Fab, thank you. Must be good as you both reconmended it at the same time

Not for sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography by Rebecca Whisnant

here

maymay's Male Submission Art and Maybe maimed but Never Harmed.

maymay curates the former site and the latter is, I think, his primary blog. I find some of his work overly fussy but he writes very precisely about the issues that concern him - including positive and negative effects of different kinds of porn. MSA, in particular, contains a lot of homegrown porn made with a rich awareness of context and the range of possible interpretations, with many comments from the producers/providers - who are often the subjects of the images.

Thanks Tiger and Dittany.

Not really what i'm looking for, but thanks Madamh.

dittany: yes, the sites are pro (ethical) BDSM, written from maymay's perspective as a submissive male and, if I recall correctly, feminist. I linked to them because maymay writes a lot about different types of porn and their effects on people and their relationships.

thefinerthingsinlife: no worries if they're not what you're looking for. I was concerned that the titles mentioned seem to come from a single, very definite anti-porn angle and I wanted to give a heads-up for another perspective that you might have found interesting.

Two more:

www.antipornmen.org/

pornharms.com/

Jess the pornharms link is perfect, thank you

BUMP

my OH has his newphone background as a stripper going gyrating round the pole and as she swings round in a g-string,
you can see so much youre practically glaring into her intestines and money falls out ! lurrvly [hmmm]

sorry to time waste here needed a rant but didnt really warran a thread, plus i'd probs get alot of 'ur just jealous' if I did :(

I don't think you'd get that response at all, Delia. & quite apart from anything else, that's just tacky Have you spoken to him about it?

Not from you guys but some posters in here are like Daily Fail pitbulls in heat,

I said to him how would you feel If I had a mans bulging crotch on my background? said he wouldnt mind, so I may test that theory

I would hate that Delia for so many reasons!

I think the wholelapdancer thing is tacky

on a personal level the main issue for is the double standard and thats is different :(

Have you explicitly told him that you don't like it?

yeah, he says he delete but ill see tommorrow

OP: I would suggest you also look at Against Censorship. I'm not sure what your project is but it's generally not good practice to research only one side of a contentious issue.

Sorry, Feminists against censorship. There is an anti-censorship feminist position (which can include support for ethical porn), despite the mainstream media's longstanding insistence on portraying the porn debate as Fun-Loving People versus Hairy-Legged Sex-Starved Feminists.

Oh Delia, I understand where you're coming from, I would not be happy at all!

SCGB, I think the question that I'm going to answer will be "does the use of pornography affect personal relationships?". Don't worry I was going to research the otherside too, I just knew I could get some good "anti" sources on here. Thanks for the link.

I can't get the link to work

he removed it and put sone rapper on there instead lol, oh well babysteps