Watching Sex

How Men Really Respond to Pornography

Author: David Loftus
ISBN: 9781560253600

The gulf between critics of pornography and those who use it seems unbridgeable. Not only do the two sides disagree about its effect on society and individual men and women, they cannot even agree on what it is. Where one finds objectification, subordination, degradation, and violence against women, the other sees beauty, fun, pleasure, female power and assertiveness, and fantasy. Freud never asked, “What do men want?” but Katherine MacKinnon asserts, “Pornography provides an answer. Pornography permits men to have whatever they want sexually. It is their ‘truth about sex’.” Is this true? Dozens of books have been published on pornography, yet almost none feature the voices of the men who use it. Indeed, most of our ideas about men and pornography are theoretical, and most are entirely derived from women. Watching Sex explores pornography through the eyes of men who use it. The interviews with nearly 150 men—between the ages of 19 and 67, single, married, divorced and wid

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Publish Date: 2002

Subjects: Social Science / Pornography

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Sex Work)