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Friday 27 May
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Professor Gail Dines is a scholar, activist and social critic. She is also at the forefront of an international conversation about the effects of porn culture on contemporary society. Her book, Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality, takes an unflinching look at today’s porn industry: the stories woven into the images, the impact on our culture, the effects on us as men and women, the business machine that creates and markets porn, and the growing legitimacy of porn in mainstream media. Above all, Pornland examines the way porn shapes and limits sexual imaginations and behaviors. Dines argues that rather than sexually liberating or empowering us, porn offers us a plasticized, formulaic, generic version of sex that is boring, lacking in creativity and disconnected from emotion and intimacy. She speaks with Monica Dux.
Gail Dines is in Australia as a guest of the Wheeler Centre and the Sydney Writers' Festival.
Featuring
Monica Dux
Monica Dux is a writer and commentator. She is the author of Lapsed: losing your religion is harder than it looks (HarperCollins ABC Books, 2021), Things I Didn’t Expect (when I was expecting) (MUP, 2013), co-author of ...
Gail Dines
Dr Gail Dines is professor of sociology and women’s studies at Boston’s Wheelock College. Her work focuses on the hypersexualisation of culture and the way porn filters into pop culture. Her latest book is Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality.
Gail is an internationally acclaimed speaker and author, and a feminist activist. Her work on media and pornography has appeared in academic journals, magazines, newspaper, radio and TV across the globe.
She is a recipient of the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights and a founding member of Stop Porn Culture.