One point of disagreement with the article "The only person it isn’t clear to is Gail Dines."

Unfortunately Gail is not alone, there are others like her.

A couple of points stuck out. Gail gave the impression that where she does consult 'facts' about porn usage it's about what sell's. One of the panelists made the point that amateur porn is a big component of online porn.

It was also pointed out that Gail's views on porn usage and it's effects on men are not all that different to the "covered meat" thinking.

The Q&A episode is available for download from the ABC.

R0bert

The internet is for porn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo

enjoy

There a gulf of difference between positive and negative pornography; not just in terms of impacts on women, but on men also.
This is an almost unresearched area, but I believe it holds a large part of the key towards creating harmony between women and men.
Our traditional analysis on the effects of porn - and the way we bring up our girls and boys - is at best half the story. More here, including a number of things I wish someone had told me when I was a teenager:
http://chriseven.blogspot.com/2011/04/some-truths-about-pornography.html

Thanks for the forum.

I think Gail Dines has been completely misrepresented in this article. She is focussed on the trends and changes in the porn industry and all commentators seem to neglect that.

Thank you for an insightful article. In my view, "You don't ban a whole industry because of a few bad eggs." I've referenced your article in my comments at http://bit.ly/jN1vVL

I thought she came across as a bit of a crazed zealot on Q&A and didn't do her cause much good at all.

She may have started off each argument OK but they all eventually turned into rants.

It was all generalisations with no real evidence and no chance of rebuttal.

Her allegation that the Porn Industry started in about 1956 was also a bit odd. I think it's been around for much longer than that and there were other magazines before Playboy.

Apparently the largest growth area in that marketplace is from home-made amateurs and that is overwhelmingly voluntary with no real need for exploitation.

She also failed to mention what sort of exploitation and violence may exist in Lesbian-based porn and just presumed that it's all male vs female.