Young People and Pornography: Negotiating Pornification

by Monique Mulholland

Mulholland offers a scholarly, yet wholly accessible, critical engagement with young people's negotiation with the pornification of culture. This work foregrounds the affective dynamics in young people's institutional and everyday sexual peer cultures.

212 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Per A.J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely interesting take on the normalisation of porn and related sexual manners in the culture of today's youth. The teens may not be compulsive users (not all of them), but the social landscape is permeated by the Internet – with all that this entangles.

Mulholland dives into the raunch culture, the sex-positive endeavours, provocative artists, in an era where erotic capital is monetized on different levels. The different kinds of "normal", the fictions of the perverse, danger or transgression, meaning of objectification, spoken and the unspoken, trying the control the uncontrollable, the humour of pornography, spectacle and entertainment, heteronormativity and queer, the position of the researcher… A lot of different perspectives are being dealt with. And all in an interested and non-moralistic manner, as befits a scientist and researcher.

[Sara G · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very clearly and uncomfortably published in 2013.