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- The Porning of America
- Carmine Sarracino and Kevin M.Scott
- Beacon Press (2008)
When Vancouver mom Trina Campbell went public with her outrage over American Apparel adding a porn mag to a clothing display, I considered sending her my copy of The Porning of America, along with a good-on-you note. She deserves a prize for saying something no one else has the courage to utter.
Oh, the book won't help Ms. Campbell feel any better. Might even make her feel worse. Authors Carmine Sarracino and Kevin M. Scott, an academic duet from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, have overwhelming evidence that the most dehumanizing style of porn has infected every aspect of life, and they trace the history of just how this came to be.
Readers learn about all sorts of things they were probably lucky enough to have overlooked. Like "toilet cams." Apparently, not content with web cams documenting the action in dorm rooms, some enterprising folk started attaching them to public toilets and posting the results. Who knew?
The book is subtitled The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here, and while they're short on ideas about the latter, the authors are brilliant at mapping out the former. In short: we have "normalized the marginal." Starting sometime in the 19th century, and with increasing enthusiasm and speed in the 20th, we have given over much of the public square to pornographic ideas and degrading, humiliating and gory sexual imagery. To the point that the non-stop sexualization of women and children is so common that our conscious minds just shrug it off.
What are we normalizing?
Most of us noticed the trend to skankwear, but unless you have children you probably missed the thongs-for-all movement. She can also tart up her Bratz doll in streetwalker ensembles. As the book relates, you can get your pre-schooler a thong emblazoned with cartoon characters, which serves to simultaneously impress upon her the importance of buying brands and being hot.
Do manufacturers even consider the implications of sexualizing children? Am I alone in thinking it gives pedophiles license when we normalize the notion of children in garments designed to inspire desire?
The authors cite Madonna for taking slutwear mainstream, and making huge leaps in getting us all to embrace taboos. Rounding out the half dozen cultural icons who led us down this path are pimpin' rapper (and professional pornographer) Snoop Dogg, literal porn star Jenna Jameson, crusading pornographers Russ Meyers and Al Goldstein, and yes, I'm sorry to say, we must always have Paris. she was among the first to talk about AIDS and safe sex -- but just as often she broke down barriers that would have been better left in place. That's Hilton. Sometimes for the good -- in the U.S.
Porn baron with regrets
In the surprisingly sweet rom-com Zack and Miri Make a Porno, the insightful Zack notes that Paris went from doin' it doggy-style on the Internet to selling perfume to tweens. Porn was a career-maker for the heiress, whose only talent seems to be for exhibitionism, and he plans to follow suit.