Make Love Not Porn: Technology's Hardcore Impact on Human Behavior (TED Books) [Kindle Edition]

Cindy Gallop (Author), Rodger Ruzanka (Illustrator)

Book Description

Hardcore pornography is becoming so ubiquitous on the web, it is shaping and distorting the way many of today's young men and women think about sex and intimacy. Cindy Gallop discovered this through personal experience. In a bold, honest book, she describes numerous examples of porn-influenced behavior from the hilarious to the disturbing.

"Make Love Not Porn" is part of the new TED Books series. TED Books are short digital books that present a single powerful idea.

Product Details

• File Size: 406 KB
• Print Length: 57 pages
• Publisher: TED Books (February 22, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004P1IX9U
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,505 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #25 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Pornography
  • #48 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Pornography

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Must read for parents February 25, 2011

By Kate Bristow

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Most parents do not want to think about their teenage children having sex. Or viewing sex. Or talking about sex with their peers. But the truth is they do. A lot. What Cindy Gallop has done with this honest, insightful book is expose the fallacy that porn is only for grown-ups and that children will develop their own sexual modus operandi in a natural, organic fashion. They won't. If today's parents are too afraid to discuss sex and porn with their children, they should at least tell them to read this book. It will open their eyes to the fact that they have been fed a series of unreal expectations and beliefs about what constitutes good sex. Cindy's work deserves attention at the highest level. As a reader, I salute her eloquence. As a mom, I thank God for her courage.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A modern spin on the oldest tale (and the oldest trade) February 24, 2011

By A. Smith

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I first met Cindy Gallop a couple of years ago when I was interviewing her on the subject of storytelling. In this case it was to do with the rather more (though only, perhaps, a little) polite world of online advertising. Cindy understands how to communicate directly and with humor. With Make Love Not Porn she undresses all the illusions one might have about our own intimate behavior, and what is harder to read (especially to those of us with kids) that of the searching minds of teenagers. We live in a world where anything that can be imagined (or visually created) is but a mouse click away. The porn industry (with all its friends and relations) has a deep reach into the lives of us all. It affects how we think about sex, our own bodies and the bodies of those we interact with. Cindy Gallop addresses all these issues in a very personal and explicit way. This is not for the faint of heart but it will certainly open the eyes. Place alongside "The Sexual Life of Catherine M" by Catherine Millet and you will have two of the most explicit and well-told stories of female/human sexuality.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I work in porn, and this book was able to change my personal (sex) life. June 22, 2011

By ZeBek

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I've always been a little more into learning about sex since I was a teenager, so naturally I went into the porn business to gain knowledge through experience. I am strictly on the business side, but I can't say that working in porn hasn't affected my personal sex life. After reading this book in which Cindy points out comparisons of real life sex vs. porno sex, I can easily say that I have a new view on sex all together. While I was growing up I didn't know porn was fake until I was actually on a porn set. I am 25 years old and fortunately I didn't have as much easy access to porn or the internet until after I was 18 years old. I can't imagine what my teenage nieces and nephew think real life sex is like, and I'm sure their #1 teacher is the computer and their friends who watch porn on the internet.

I read Cindy's book in one night, finished most of it while at the laundromat. Make Love Not Porn helped me realize that i don't have to be a "porn star" in bed all the time. You must read this book because it is a different form of sex education that you can't get in school, porn, or from your parents. Very enlightening and will change the way you have sex, for the better!
Thank you Cindy Gallop!

More About the Author

Cindy Gallop's background is brandbuilding, marketing and advertising - she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year. She is the founder and CEO of www.IfWeRanTheWorld.com, a marketing platform that turns human and corporate good intentions into collective action, launched in beta at TED 2010, and subsequently written up and taught as a Harvard Business School case study; and of www.makelovenotporn.com, launched at TED 2009. She has just launched https://www.makelovenotporn.tv/ in invitation-only beta: details can be found at http://talkabout.makelovenotporn.tv/ . She acts as board advisor to a number of tech startups and consults for companies around the world, describing her consultancy approach as 'I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.' She has a reputation as a highly compelling and inspirational speaker at conferences and events around the world on a variety of topics: her talks on the future of advertising and marketing have been described on Twitter as: 'The most brilliant speech on the future of advertising ever - not the usual buzzword-laden bullshit'; 'Watching @cindygallop slice and dice the ad industry status quo like a ginsu knife. #purewin'; and 'There must be a DeLorean parked outside, because Cindy Gallop is from the FUTURE!' She published 'Make Love Not Porn: Technology's Hardcore Impact on Human Behavior' as one of TED's line of TEDBooks and is currently working on a book about her philosophy of life and business. You can follow her on Twitter @cindygallop.