Dr Gail Dines Recommended Reading

• Pornhub’s Hypocrisy Medium, Jan. 27, 2021
• Informed Consent Contract for Porn Performers
• MP to Request that Pornhub Executives Testify Before Commons Ethics Committee The Globe and Mail, Dec. 10, 2020.
• “So Ashamed: I was drugged in a bar, sexually assaulted…” The Sun (UK), Sept. 15, 2020.
• How to Build Your Children’s Resilience to Porn: Gail Dines Wants to Help Parents Counter Messages Some Experts Say Are Altering Sexual Norms The Boston Globe, Sept. 6, 2020.
• TikTok, Netflix’s ‘365 Days’ and the Memeification of Violent Sex by Generation Z  The Independent, Aug. 21, 2020.
• Why Porn’s Obsession with Ever-Younger Girls is Putting Our Daughters in Danger… The Daily Mail, Aug. 3, 2020.
• “White Girl Moans Black Lives Matter”: Pornhub’s #BLM genre and the industry’s brash racism Slate, July 9, 2020.
• Dr. Gail Dines: 5 Ways To Create a Healthy Relationship with Screens and Technology Medium.com, May 13, 2020.
• Why hitting rock bottom when suffering from an eating disorder and depression was the best thing… Glamour, March 24, 2020.
• Pornography Undermines the #MeToo Movement Houston Chronicle, Dec. 5, 2019.
• The Terrifying Sex Trend Being Forced on Young Women The Daily Mail (UK), Dec. 4, 2019.
• Katie Couric’s New Podcast: Teens’ access to hardcore porn could hurt them…literally USA Today, Oct. 10, 2019.
• The Phones Are Alive, With the Sounds of Katie Couric The New York Times, Oct. 6, 2019.
• Don’t wait: How to talk to teenagers about porn The Guardian, Aug. 31, 2019.
• The fatal, hateful rise of choking during sex The Guardian, July 25, 2019.
• The birds and the bees — and porn — in the Internet age NPR’s “On Point,” June 17, 2019.
• What kids aren’t telling parents about porn on social media Boston Globe Magazine, Jan. 29, 2019.
• Child pornography may make a comeback after court ruling guts regulations protecting minors By Gail Dines with David L. Levy. The Conversation, Aug. 23, 2018.
• Choking women is all the rage. It’s branded as fun, sexy ‘breath play’ The Guardian. May 13, 2018.
• Parents should talk to their tweens about the risks of porn Salon.com, Feb. 22, 2018.
• Parents need to start talking to their tweens about the risks of porn The Conversation, Feb. 20, 2018.
• The Handmaid’s Tale offers a terrifying warning, but the hijacking of feminism is just as dangerous Feminist Current, May 1, 2017.
• Is porn immoral? That doesn’t matter: It’s a public health crisis Washington Post. April 8, 2016.
• Why Your Father’s Playboy Can’t Compete in Today’s World of Hard-Core Porn The Conversation, Oct. 22, 2015.
• Book Review of Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution by Rachel Moran. Truthdig, Sept. 18, 2015.
• Telling Women they Should Enjoy Hookups isn’t Liberating Verilymag.com, Aug 19, 2015.
• Don’t Let Fifty Shades of Grey Ruin Your Valentine’s Weekend Verilymag.com, Feb. 11, 2015.
• Ghomeshi played the role of a feminist ally, but in private he was fully enmeshed in porn culture. Feminist Current, Nov. 7, 2014.
• Nicki Minaj: Little More Than a Big Butt? Huffington Post (UK), July 28, 2014.
• Fifty Shades of Grey’ Trailer: First Prize for False Advertising Huffington Post (UK), July 25, 2014.
• UCSB, Feminism and Porn Huffington Post (UK), June 2, 2014.
• The Porn Industry and the Tea Party Playbook CounterPunch, March 10, 2014.
• Don’t be fooled by Fifty Shades of Grey- Christian Grey is no Heartthrob The Guardian. Oct. 25, 2013.
• The HIV Crisis in the Porn Industry CounterPunch, Sept. 27-29, 2013.
• You know you have lived here too long when... CounterPunch, Feb. 15, 2013.
• LA County’s Measure B is a major win for safe sex in adult entertainment The Guardian, Nov. 12, 2012.
• Vagina Gazing at the New York Times CounterPunch, Sept. 21, 2012.
• Porn, syphilis, and the politics of the money shot The Guardian, Aug. 28, 2012.
• Cosmopolitan and the False Promise of an ‘Awesome Life’ The Guardian, Aug. 7, 2012.
• Why are Women Devouring Fifty Shades of Grey CounterPunch, July 27, 2012.
• When a Feminist Gets Bumped for a Pornographer CounterPunch, July 10, 2012.
• ‘Having it all’ looks very different for women stuck in low-paid jobs The Guardian, June 25, 2012.
• Porn is in rude health The Guardian, June 7, 2012.
• A Feminist Response to Weitzer Violence Against Women, Vol. 18 (4): 512-520, April 2012.
• The Help at Downton Abbey CounterPunch, Jan. 13, 2012.
• Moral panic? No. We are resisting the pornification of women The Guardian, Dec. 1, 2011.
• DSK and the Meaning of Consent CounterPunch, July 12, 2011.
• Hugh Hefner Falls for Matrimony The Guardian, June 12, 2011.
• SlutWalk is not sexual liberation The Guardian, May 8, 2011.
• Porn: A multibillion-dollar industry that renders all authentic desire plastic The Guardian, January 4, 2011.
• Should We Worry Whether Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality? Uprising Radio, Sept. 11, 2010.
• How porn is warping a generation of men New York Post, July 11, 2010.
• The truth about the porn industry By Julie Bindel. The Guardian. July 2, 2010.
• 3-D Nude Centerfolds? Playboy Tries to Survive in World Filled With Hard-Core Gonzo Porn CounterPunch, May 19, 2010.
• Living in a Porn Culture New Left Project, April 15, 2010.
• Not Your Father’s Playboy? CounterPunch, May 17, 2010.
• Yale Sex Week Glosses Over Porn’s Dark Side Hartford Courant, Feb. 11, 2008.
• The Anti-Feminist Politics Behind the Pornography that “Empowers” Women (with Robert Jensen). ZNet and Atlantic Free Press, Feb. 2, 2008.
• Feminist Debates on Pornography (with Robert Jensen). In Wolfgang Donsbach, ed., International Encyclopedia of Communication, Vol. 8 (Oxford, UK and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell), pp. 3807-3811, 2008.
• The White Man’s Burden: Gonzo Pornography and the Construction of Black Masculinity Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, V. 14 Spring, 2006.

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