Women on Porn

At a time when women are more vocal than ever about our lives, there's one last taboo: we need to talk about porn. When we think about porn today, we still mostly think about men—men as the producers and consumers, and women as the product. Most women aren't really talking to each other about what they do and don't do with porn. When we do discuss it, we are divided into unhelpful binaries: for or against? Liberation or coercion? Too sexual or not sexual enough?

But in a world where porn sites receive more traffic than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined, and one of the leading sites claims a third of its users are women, isn't it time to change that? In this book, interviews with 100 women result in an extraordinary and powerful conversation on pornography. It explores how they first encountered it, how they consume it, how it has affected their sex lives, what they like and dislike, and what it means for their relationships. Eye-opening, provocative, and deeply moving, this book navigates the polarized public debates to open an intimate window into porn and the sexual lives of women today.