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Pamela Paul Biography
Pamela Paul is a journalist and the author of The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony (Villard), selected by The Washington Post as one of the best books of 2002. She is a contributor to TIME magazine.
Paul was formerly a senior editor at American Demographics magazine, where she covered social, political, and media trends. For five years, she was a monthly contributor to The Economist, where she covered books, arts trends and film. She has also written for The New York Times Book Review, Psychology Today, Health, Self, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, Marie Claire, More, and a number of other national magazines. Online, she has written for Salon.com, Inside.com and other websites.
Paul has appeared on national television shows such as Oprah, Good Morning America, The Today Show and Politically Incorrect. She speaks frequently on national radio about issues related to marriage and divorce, social and demographic trends and generational issues.
Contact the Author: pamela@pamelapaul.com |
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 It's time to start asking questions about porn:
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Have you ever looked at pornography? |
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Do you look at online porn every day? |
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Do you think your husband looks at it every day? |
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Are you afraid your children are getting hooked on porn? |
Over the past ten years, technological advances, cultural shifts and social attitudes have transformed the pornography landscape. PORNIFIED is the first book to look at how this new culture of pornography is transforming people's lives in the 21st century.
Using a mix of original qualitative and quantitative research, extensive interviews and vivid narrative, PORNIFIED tells the story of how men, women and children are affected by the ubiquity and mainstreaming of porn. The Internet, in particular, has made pornography more anonymous, more accessible and more affordable than ever before, bringing in new users, increasing use among existing fans, and catapulting others into sexual compulsivity. Children are being exposed to pornography earlier than ever before, in ways that may profoundly affect their sexuality. At the same time, child pornography is on the rise.
Yet while most people are disturbed by these trends, we still approach the issue of porn in outdated and ineffective ways. PORNIFIED shows why it's important for all Americans - those who look at pornography and those who do not - to understand how porn has changed and what we need to do about it.
 Here’s what people are saying about PORNIFIED, which Publisher’s Weekly named a “major watercooler book this season,” People magazine called a “Buzz Book,” and The San Francisco Chronicle listed as one of the Best Books of 2005:
Having already carved out a major niche among 20-to-30-somethings with The Starter Marriage, Paul takes on another bane of postfeminism: the Internet-enabled “all pornography, all the time” mentality of many younger men and its ripple effect on the culture… She covers a lot of territory, and there’s plenty to unnerve the knee-jerk “free speech” crowd. This will be a major watercooler book this season.
— Publisher’s Weekly, boxed review for books of special interest
Pamela Paul convincingly and sometimes shockingly details the effects on men, women and children of living in a “pornified” world. Her book should be a wakeup call 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: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
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