Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality

"Gail Dines is an academic, researcher and activist. Her study of the effects of porn culture is devastating, powerful and extremely relatable. She shows how, through the immediacy and availability of porn, women’s sexual experience is warped and degraded and men’s expectations of sex (and of their own experience and ‘performance’ in sexual scenarios) is similarly unrealistic. She goes into some areas which are both horribly familiar and wincingly intimate as she traces how degrading, violating and coercive practices have been normalised. It’s an essential read —and we need it like never before."