Pornified

Pornography in the United States now turns up in places most people would not expect, including mainstream video games, advice columns, reality television, and even bestseller lists. As it has grown cheap, easy to reach, and private, it has also become more widely accepted and woven into the personal lives of many men and women.

Pamela Paul contends that this spread is damaging marriages and families and warping how children learn about sex and intimacy. The book draws on more than one hundred interviews along with a nationally representative poll. Its portraits range from a wife lying awake while her husband spends late nights on adult websites to parents who discover that their twelve-year-old son has watched a hardcore film.

The result is an examination of what pornography costs families and the wider culture, written as an investigation rather than a simple condemnation.