Gail Dines is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dines specializes in the study of pornography. She is co-author of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality and author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality . She is also a founding member of Stop Porn Culture, and one of the chief editors of the journal Sexualization, Media, and Society. Julie Bindel described her in 2010 as the world's leading anti-pornography campaigner.
Dines argues that boys and men are exposed online to pornography that is increasingly cruel and violent toward women. The exposure of teenage girls to the images affects their sense of sexual identity. The result, Dines writes, is that women are "held captive by images by ultimately tell lies about women" and that "contemporary idealized femininity" has been reduced to the "hypersexualized, young, thin, toned, hairless, and, in many cases, surgically enhanced woman with a come-hither look on her face."
Pornland: How Porn Hijacked Our Sexuality, Gail Dines
Pornland: How Porn Hijacked Our Sexuality, Ch 5, Page 85, Gail Dines
