WAAC meeting, 14 August: Pornography reading and resouces

Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice.

― Robin Morgan, Theory and Practice: Pornography and rape, (1974)

WEB ARTICLES

• Without porn, the world would be a better place, Julie ‘No Bull’ Bindel
• It’s not ‘anti sex’ to want to expose pornography’s complicit role in child abuse and trafficking, Laura McNally
• X underrated [Pornography and dissociative logic], Catherine McKinnon. She’s a legend.

VIDEOS

• Growing up in a pornified culture, Gail Dines Ted Talk. Gail speaks truth.
• Against Pornography: The Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, Andrea Dworkin, 47 min. Warning: some parts of this are a tough watch.

IN THE NEWS

• At last, a cure for feminism: sex robots, Deborah Orr
• The first real boom in virtual reality? It’s pornography, David M Ewalt. A man. There’s a thing.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Adolescents and Pornography: A Review of 20 Years of Research
• A Meta‐Analysis of Pornography Consumption and Actual Acts of Sexual Aggression in General Population Studies

PODCASTS

• From academia to pop culture to body hair, porn culture has permeated almost every aspect of our lives, interview with Heather-Brunskell Evans, Feminist Current, 44 min. Another truth-teller.

BOOKS FROM THE WAAC LIBRARY
Please see Megan to borrow a book from the WAAC library. Loans are made for a period of one month on the condition that if the book is lost, damaged, or not returned, you will pay for a replacement.

• Not for Sale. Feminists resisting prostitution and pornography, Rebecca Whisnant and Christine Stark (Eds) (2004)
• Pornland. How porn has hijacked our sexuality, Gail Dines (2010)
• Big Porn, Inc, Melinda Tankard Reist and Abigail Bray (Eds) (2012)
• The Sexualized Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography. Performing sexual liberation, Heather Brunskell-Evans (2016)
• Pornography. Men possessing women, Andrea Dworkin (1981)
• Pornography and Silence. Culture’s revenge against nature, Susan Griffin (1982)

USEFUL LINKS

• Culture reframed. Research-driven education to prevent, resist, and heal the harms of violent mainstream pornography and hypersexualized pop culture
• eChildhood.org. eChildhood is a registered health promotion charity dedicated to mobilising responses that reduce the harmful effects of pornography on children and young people using a public health approach
• Fight the new drug. An organisation that reviews, summarises, and presents peer-reviewed research about pornography in a clear and concise way that’s engaging and easy for people to understand.