Pornified: How Pornography is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families

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

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

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

Pamela Paul is a contributor to Time magazine and the author of The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony. Formerly a senior editor at American Demographics, she writes for such publications as Psychology Today, Self, Marie Claire, Ladies' Home Journal, The Economist, and The New York Times Book Review. She lives in New York.