That gets confused with the idea that I’m telling people what to do in the bedroom. I’m critiquing the commodification of sex.

GD: What people do outside corporate forces, or outside capitalism, is none of my business.

ST: Are you opposed to consensual BDSM sex in real life? Or do you see this as a harmful and exploitative relationship? My issue is about the market and about how pornography frames femininity. She aged out of Disney and this is the carefully planned-out launch of the new Miley Cyrus. Miley Cyrus’s performance is not about creativity but dictated by capitalism. GD: The problem is that women in our culture have to conform to very narrow definitions of femininity and it’s defined by porn. ST: What is it about Miley Cyrus in S&M gear that bothers you? Is it her age? Or simply that she’s wearing pseudo-bondage gear? Pornland explores how porn limits our capacity for connection, intimacy and relationships. Whether it be Miley Cyrus in Elle spread-eagle on a table dressed in S&M gear, or Cosmopolitan telling readers to spice up their sex lives with porn, we are overwhelmed by a porn culture that shapes our sexual identities and ideas about gender and sexuality. Pornland looks at how porn messages, ideologies, and images seep into our everyday life. Today’s mainstream Internet porn is brutal and cruel, with body-punishing sex acts that debase and dehumanize women. Many people have outdated ideas that porn is pictures of naked women wearing coy smiles and not much else, or of people having hot sex. Gail Dines: I wrote Pornland to raise consciousness about the effects of the contemporary porn industry. Ms./Shira Tarrant: You wrote Pornland for a mainstream audience.

To that end, I interviewed Gail Dines, curious about our agreements and differences on The Porn Question. We need more conversation-not less-which means asking tough questions across ideological divides. This keeps rival groups in far corners of the Sex Wars boxing ring. I oppose censorship and unproductive arguments pitting sex-positive feminists against anti-porn activists. Unlike Dines-and in the interest of full disclosure-I am not anti-porn. Gail Dines calls herself an anti-porn feminist, but she is quick to clarify that she’s not anti-sex. Some people make a buck many more are harmed, argues Dines in her new book PORNLAND: How Porn Has Hijacked our Sexuality (Beacon Press). This is author Gail Dines’s point: Porn is about profit, not pleasure. With 370 million sites and $3,000 spent for online porn every second, the industry’s revenues surpass earnings by Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple and Netflix combined. There’s a new domain on the block: dot-xxx.

Pornland by gail dines