On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Maxim Kammerer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Iceland's move has been welcomed by Dr Gail Dines, a professor of >> sociology at Wheelock College in Boston and the author of Pornland: How Porn >> has Hijacked Our Sexuality. "Of course internet porn is damaging," she said. >> "We have years of empirical evidence. It's like global warming – you will >> always find some global warming deniers out there who can quote some little >> piece of research they have found somewhere, some science junk, but the >> consensus is there. > > Somehow I doubt this sociology professor understands what empirical > evidence is. Her Wikipedia summary certainly suggests that she > doesn't.
"In short, the existing empirical evidence on real-world consumers contradicts Dines’ sweeping generalizations about them." (p. 672) from: Review Essay by Ronald Weitzer, Dept of Sociology, George Washington Univ. Pornography’s Effects: The Need for Solid Evidence A Review Essay of Everyday Pornography, edited by Karen Boyle (New York: Routledge, 2010) and Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, by Gail Dines (Boston: Beacon, 2010) Available online at http://vaw.sagepub.com/content/17/5/666 -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
