The Porning of America

Whether deconstructing Bratz dolls or the tragedy of Abu Ghraib, this urgent book reveals that porn has become the mainstream and the mainstream has become porn Sarracino and Scott argue that we no longer have to purchase pornography to get porn because we increasingly live porn in our daily lives. Resolutely pro-sex, they contend that, to make the most of our hard-won sexual freedom, we must thoughtfullyand honestlyevaluate what is both liberating and damaging about porn.

Carmine Sarracino is professor of English at Elizabethtown College and lives in Pennsylvania. Kevin M. Scott is professor of English at Albany State University and lives in Georgia.