Shapiro captures a generation through first-person reporting, interviews with refugees from the porn industry, conversations with psychologist, educators, and students, and a telling cultural critique.
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"Ben Shapiro is quickly emerging as one of our most refreshing and insightful voices on the popular culture." -- Michael Medved, nationally syndicated radio host and film critic
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Talkin’ about my generation? It’s the Porn Generation
It’s everywhere, from commercials to New York Times bestsellers to college (and even younger) classrooms. In fact, pornography has become such a part of normal life in 21st century America that many teens and twenty-somethings have had no more important influence. They are the porn generation, where life’s expectations come from Mouseketeer pop tarts, Victoria’s Secret, Internet titillation, and condom-flogging sex education.
Tom Wolfe’s novel Charlotte Simmons told part of the story—but in Porn Generation it’s for real. Ben Shapiro speaks as a member of this generation, and the tale he has to tell is a shocking perspective on life in an age where moral relativism reigns on college campuses, oversexed narcissism rules the airwaves, and purity is the new sin.
In Porn Generation you’ll learn: · How porn producers see themselves as shaping and taking over Mainstreet U.S.A. · The real face of taxpayer-funded sex education: nine-year-olds learning about condoms; twelve-year-olds being questioned about their "sexual orientation" · The new collegiate do’s (accepting "sexile") and don’ts ("dormcest") · How Hollywood and TV have mainstreamed pornography: why porn stars now turn up regularly on television and in glossy ads—and why celebrities imitate porn stars · Mamas, don’t let your daughters grow up to be co-eds: why on college campuses—and throughout the porn generation—sexual relationships are as disposable as used condoms Is there any good news? Yes. A lifestyle of playing pimps and hos—even if dressed up in preppie clothing—can only last so long before disease, despair, and depression set in—and many in the porn generation are beginning to wake up to their tragedy. Ben Shapiro closes Porn Generation with a roundtable discussion that brings together the diverse perspectives of columnist and bestselling author Michelle Malkin, Dallas Morning News op-ed editor Rod Dreher, former Princeton chaplain Father C. J. McCloskey III, and columnist and bestselling author David Limbaugh to discuss how bad things have become and what the prospects are for bringing the porn generation back from the brink. Porn Generation is the book that will define this generation—and provide a warning for generations to come.
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How long can we continue like this? , May 15, 2008,
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This review is from: Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future (Hardcover)
Anybody out there ever in doubt that our culture has changed, dramatically, and for the worse? If so, this book will change your mind.
Shapiro details the changes with wit and skill, but the overall impression I was left with was one of horror. He points out that "moral self-destruction may seem to have no consequences for the individual, but the destruction of societal standards always has consequences...When the stigma left single motherhood, society felt the sting in rising rates of single motherhood and juvenile crime" (p 6). No kidding. Research has shown recently that if a neighborhood is very poor, there is no correlation to higher crime rates. But if a neighborhood has large numbers of single mothers, then, always, there is a great deal of crime. So why the heck is everything in our culture trying to undo marriage? Why is everything that Hollywood produces pushing sex without consequences, when everybody can see there really are consequences? I can see it clearly in the young women I know, whose early promiscuity left them unable to truly love another person, whose lives are in shambles. One young woman (age 27 and from what used to be known as a good family) has cervical cancer from an STD she has, and plus she has an illegitimate child from a boyfriend who is now long gone. It's time to see things in perspective and change.
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This review is from: Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future (Hardcover)
I'm not sure, but I think Ben Shapiro is the youngest writer currently occupying a spot in the conservative writer's pantheon. A student at Harvard Law School, this now twenty-one year old author published one book, "Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth," before he was old enough to go buy a beer at the bar. Now he gives us "Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism is Corrupting Our Future," a treatise on public morality--more specifically, the decline of public morality and its consequences--that is a solid addition to the bookshelves of social conservatives everywhere. I don't know how Shapiro managed to write a book while studying law at one of America's best universities. I recently finished graduate school at a university several tiers below good old Harvard (or is that pronounced "Havahhhd"?), and I had trouble getting out of bed to show up in class on time. Writing a book loaded with statistics pulled from dozens upon dozens of sources was out of the question; I was happy if I managed to cobble together a thirty-page research paper by the end of the semester. Anyway, it's heartening to see a young man take a public stand against the corrosive effects of social liberalism. It's also, as we'll see, problematic.
Shapiro's book, which carries an "explicit lyrics" warning label on the cover (!), takes America to task for the lax morality that increasingly dominates all aspects of public discourse. No one with an ounce of sense in his or her head can dispute this view. We all know pornography via the Internet and, increasingly, through traditional forms of media cheapen millions of people's lives. Turn on the radio on any given day, and you're likely to hear rap music containing the most vulgar lyrics banging away hour after hour. Sign on to the Internet, and you'll inevitably stumble over an adult site loaded with obscene images of the type your ancestors couldn't ever imagine existing let alone actually seeing so easily. Turn on the television set, and sexually explicit shows and movies will overwhelm your senses. Open up a newspaper, and you'll notice advertisements sporting pictures of children dressed in provocative attire. What's going on here? Why is every form of media bursting at the seams with racy imagery? Perhaps what is most disturbing is that many of us are so accustomed to seeing and hearing this sort of material that we don't even notice it anymore. It's become the common currency of our high tech, fast paced modern world. Shapiro has noticed the celebration of decadence, however, and he finds this rejection of morality repulsive and damaging. "Porn Generation" covers all of the topics mentioned above, as well as a few others. Chapters outline the sickening and soul deadening nihilism of rap music (the reason for the "explicit lyrics" warning on the cover), discuss in detail the efforts of companies like Abercrombie & Fitch to sexualize the advertising industry, and the profusion of loose morals on television networks. Shapiro discusses in some depth the current living situation on college campuses across the country, arguing that co-ed dorms and lenient administration policies about living arrangements encourage casual sexual encounters. His overarching conclusion is relatively simple: the constant bombardment turns kids into desensitized adults, and leads to the embrace of a nihilistic outlook on every aspect of human existence. He proposes as solutions, among other things, the imposition of abstinence only sex-ed classes and dress codes in schools, faith-based initiatives to recharge the religious community, and school vouchers that will allow parents to remove children from schools that promote a pro-sex agenda. Shapiro also believes a strengthened FCC and a non-governmental censorship board could restore decency in Hollywood. The author scores many valid points in his examination of America's flagging morals. We DO have a big problem, as almost anyone will admit. You don't have to be a religious nut to know that there is something wrong when your six year old kid can easily access adult material on the Internet. There's also something seriously amiss when advertisements in the paper show little boys and girls in scanty clothing. Are they aiming at the critical 18 to 34 year old pedophile demographic with those ads? I'm sorry, but your five year old girl should not wear hip huggers and a belly shirt. The problem with Shapiro's analysis is one of censorship. How far should it go? He wants to return us to the days of the Hays Code and skirts that fall below the knee. How to implement these changes, if it's possible to even do so, vexes the mind. Should we go straight for a top down approach through legislation and an ultraconservative judiciary that will uphold strict censorship laws? Or should we try a gradual approach that works from the bottom up, through initiatives at the local level that will spread from community to community? I don't know! This is a tough subject with no easy answers. I will say that I think Shapiro partially overlooks a critical factor that has led to many of the morals problems that plague society today. He mentions the idea of defining deviancy up, or the embrace of low class values, or lack thereof, by middle and upper class citizens. That's good. What he fails to discuss in great detail is the recent trend--legal, economic, and even political--to treat children as autonomous individuals capable of making sound adult decisions. Children are NOT adults and should not be treated as such. They lack the necessary judgment and life experiences to see the long-range results of their decisions. This, I think, accounts for many of the difficulties our society finds itself in. Perhaps a solution as simple as the word "No" will help more than heavy-handed restrictions. Again, I've no idea how to solve the problems, but I commend Shapiro for taking on such a contentious topic.
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Fantastic book.I purchased it a while back and I just started reading it.I recommend it to anyone that wants a better understanding of what is happening in our school system and in our country.
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