Harry Potter

Harry Potter by John Williams

An up-close look at how porn permeates our culture

Pictures of half-naked girls and women can seem to litter almost every screen, billboard, and advertisement in America. Pole-dancing studios keep women fit. Men airdrop their dick pics to female passengers on planes and trains. To top it off, the First Lady has modeled nude and the leader of the free world has bragged about grabbing women by the pussy.

This pornification of our society is what Bernadette Barton calls raunch culture. Barton explores what raunch culture is, why it matters, and how it is ruining America. She exposes how internet porn drives trends in programming, advertising, and social media, and makes its way onto our phones, into our fashion choices, and into our sex lives. From twerking and breast implants, to fake nails and push-up bras, she explores just how much we encounter raunch culture on a daily basis--porn is the new normal.

Drawing on interviews, television shows, movies, and social media, Barton argues that raunch culture matters not because it is sexy, but because it is sexist. She shows how young women are encouraged to be sexy like porn stars, and to be grateful for getting cat-called or receiving unsolicited dick pics. As politicians vote to restrict women's access to birth control and abortion, The Pornification of America exposes the double standard we attach to women's sexuality.

Patrick Doyle is Hallsworth Research Fellow at the University of Manchester

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ISBN 13	9780739086735
ISBN 10	0739086731
Title	Harry Potter
Author	John Williams
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Alfred Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.
Year published	2012-01-01
Number of pages	144
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