Robert Jensen is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Alarming and thought-provoking, Getting Off asks tough, but crucial, questions about pornography, sex, manhood, and the way toward genuine social justice. These days, anti-porn arguments are assumed to be anti-sex and thus a critical debate is silenced. Pornography also makes for complicated politics. Pornography is a thriving multi-billion-dollar industry it drives the direction of emerging media technology. In his trademark conversational style, he shows how mainstream pornography reinforces social definitions of manhood and influences men's attitudes about women and how to treat them. Getting Off seamlessly blends personal anecdotes from Jensen's years as a feminist anti-pornography activist with scholarly research. The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of porn's devastating role in defining masculinity. It ends with a defiant response: I chose to struggle to be a human being. Jensen's treatise begins with a simple demand: Be a man. So argues Robert Jensen in Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity.
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