Make Love Not Porn: Technology's Hardcore Impact on Human Behavior

by Cindy Gallop · 2011

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Cindy Gallop, a longtime advertising executive, looks at how easy access to online pornography has shaped the way young people think about sex, their bodies and their partners. Drawing on her own observations and on conversations about what people expect in bed, she argues that the gap between what is watched and what is actually practised has become a problem for everyone, not only for the viewers themselves.

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The book takes technology's effect on private behaviour seriously, asking how the industry's scripts travel into classrooms, relationships and the wider culture. Gallop's aim is to start a franker conversation, one that treats sex as something to be discussed openly rather than passed on through the screen.

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