General Article Porn – how sex is sold back to us

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Children are being exposed to pornography at a younger age than ever before. Isabel Ringrose explains that porn is a symptom of commodification, sexism and violence in a capitalist society

Pornography is now increasingly common, increasingly available and increasingly normalised. Once, porn was denounced as a product of degraded liberalism. Now some celebrate it as an ­example of freedom and sexual openness. Neither of those reflect pornography’s roots in the commodification and sexualisation...

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