Gail Diness How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality Essay

Gail Dines asked the question to her readers in Pornland; How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, â€Å"what are the consequences of porn of culture, sexuality, gender, identity, and relationship†(xi). With the competition of the pornography industry and the consumer desensitization of porn has driven the porn industry to create more hard core porn to satisfy the consumers and raise profits. In the beginning of the book, Dines’ depicts the history of pornography and the growing number of competition porn has for consumers. Later she describes, the impact porn has on our culture, the effects on both men and women, and our relationships Pornography has a tremendously evolved from being shunned in the past to its increasing popularity in today’s†¦show more content†¦Children pornography is illegal in United States. Therefore, pornography directors hire porn stars that look and dress underage to please the demand of children pornography. Therefore, it is hard er for the porn industry to distinguish their products from the media because the media has become very similar to pornography. Dines states, â€Å" Thus the major task for the porn industry is to keep looking for new niche markets and consumer bases to open up and exploit while staying within the law, or alternatively, working to change the law-an option that the now mainstream pornography industry increasingly employs.† (Bines, 142) Porn directors are looking for new ways to make porn more extreme and draw in new consumers and keep the past consumers satisfied. I was astounded by reading Porland:How porn has Hijacked Our Sexuality about all the corporations that profit from pornography such as Time Warner Cable, Cox Communication, Contrast Direct TV, and Microsoft. Gail Dines states, â€Å"The global industry has been estimated to be worth around 96 billion in 2006, with the U.S market worth approximately $13 billion.† (47) Therefore, with multiple entertainment bus iness promote and make a profit from porn it has become a part of our culture and will eventually predict our social norms and acceptable behaviors. Porn has slowly influence video games such as the popular game Grand