If there were ever a human phenomenon in need of serious objective investigation, Internet porn use is surely it. Never has the youthful human brain been battered with so much erotic novelty during such a critical window of sexual development, and cracks are definitely appearing. However, judging from the board of the upcoming Porn Studies Journal, this particular publication will lack the detachment and expertise to fulfill this critical role.
According to HuffPo:
The journal, which is being published by Routledge starting in 2014, will welcome submissions from fields as diverse as criminology, sociology, labor studies and media studies. According to the New York Times, Porn Studies will focus on pornography as it relates to “the intersection of sexuality, gender, race, class, age and ability.” This is definitely XXX-content for the scholarly set.
There is nothing in the list of proposed topics about the adverse effects of Internet porn on users. In fact, all of the 32 board members for the new journal appear to think porn’s benefits far outweigh its costs.
Imagine a “Dietetics Studies Journal” in the Land of the Obese, whose board consists only of the Chairman of the Board of PepsiCo, the CEOs of Nestle and Pillsbury, and a marketing exec from Kraft, and you have a good feel for the bias of the upcoming journal. Read more here
Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global pornography industry (Spinifex Press, 2011, Melinda Tankard Reist, Abigail Bray eds).
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Profit is why this propaganda pseudo academic journal is in the process of being created. Not forgetting given it is supposedly ‘academic’ this means pornography is now viewed as ‘worthy of academic study but must on no account be subjected to any criticism. Oh but wait – academia is founded on critical study and critical analysis so why then is porn not being subjected to the same rigorous analysis. Answer is because whatever men say or claim it is always the truth and women as a group are not human so therefore their experiences of having to live in a world which porn saturated is irrelevant.
The only women permitted a voice are those female handmaidens of the patriarchy who parrot mens’ lies that ‘porn is good for men.’
I now await news that an academic journal will be created promoting slavery because it makes economic sense! The dominant should enslave the oppressed because they aren’t human.