Here are a bunch of links. Go to them and learn things. Repeat.
FAQs
Articles/Essays
Rebecca Whisnant essays
“Not Your Father’s Playboy, Not Your Mother’s Feminist Movement: Contemporary Feminism in a Porn Culture” (video of talk in which article is based on available here)
Robert Jensen articles
“Pornography is a Left Issue”, co-authored with Gail Dines
“Blow Bangs and Cluster Bombs: the Cruelty of Men and Americans”
“A Cruel Edge: the Painful Truth About Today’s Pornography and What Men Can Do About It”
Gail Dines articles
Feminist Antipornography Conference Videos (Boston, March 2007)
Rebecca Whisnant, on third-wave feminism and porn culture (text available here)
Gail Dines, presentation on popular pornography (trigger warning for images and descriptions of violence and dehumanization)
Robert Jensen, on men’s “choice” of consuming pornography
Pornography Content Study: Ana Bridges, Michelle Chang, & Robert Wosnitzer, partial video transcript available at NoPornNorthamptom (trigger warning for descriptions of violence). The study, titled “A Comparison of Male and Female Directors in Popular Pornography: What Happens When Women are at the Helm?”, was published in Psychology of Women Quarterly (issue 32, 2008) and is in pdf form here. If you would like the fancy version from the actual publication, contact me and I can email it to you.
Books
Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, a collection of essays edited by Rebecca Whisnant and Christine Stark (preview)
Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality by Gail Dines and Robert Jensen (preview)
Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity by Robert Jensen
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy (preview)
Only Words by Catherine Mackinnon (preview)
Pornland by Gail Dines (preview)
Other Videos
Gail Dines, “Pornography Debases Men, Women, and Culture” (via NoPornNorthampton)
Information and Research on Pornography’s Effects
Social and Behavioral Science Research on the Impact of Pornography
Pornography: Effects and Harms
Prostitution Research
Myth of the Happy Hooker (various statistics based on studies involving interviews with prostituted women)
Prostitution Research & Education
Other Materials
