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

by Cindy Gallop (Author), Rodger Ruzanka (Illustrator)

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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.

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File Size: 446 KB
Print Length: 57 pages
Publisher: TED Books (February 22, 2011)
Publication Date: February 22, 2011
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B004P1IX9U
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As parents, let's get honest, yes

By Dan E. Nicholas on March 14, 2013

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Cindy Gallop has great courage with this little book and serves parents and grandparents well I think. Just yesterday I was recommending this book and her Ted Talk and website MakeLoveNotPorn to a church deacon friend who is very much involved in raising his grandchildren. In talking about this book and the whole story of how this woman, this Yes, She Likes Younger Men type woman joins the TMI revolution by getting honest with us about the #1 way our youth today are learning about human sexuality. Two words: Internet porn.

And what they are learning just isn't true. This is her point. Perhaps never before has such a profound human condition--how we view and embrace and share our sexuality--has altered an entire generation so quickly through technology.

Her argument is strong for two reasons. First, she learned this trend of Men Stupid About Sex from a new and young generation first hand: by dating younger men. Second, she is critical of porn not for moral reasons but because Internet porn is today reporting and teaching a false world. Her book tells the tale about how her idea about coming out about this simple truth turned into a Ted Talk and then a web site, all while she has kept busy with her career as a advertising executive. She gains credibility by unabashedly stating that she likes porn and watches it regularly.

Just last week, two days ago, I read of a controversy in the Bay Area where high school kids near here are writing a sex column for their Mountain View High School paper, Oracle, and being chided for being too frank. Those who want these kids censored or shut down should read Cindy's book and see her site by the same title; where the Porn World is set apart side by side next to The Real World.Read more ›

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A good read on an important subject.

By CentralOHmom on April 14, 2015

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A good read on an important subject. It's a bit academic but very readable nonetheless.

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An excellent perspective. Sometimes it's hard to separate what you ...

By Frosta on August 10, 2014

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An excellent perspective. Sometimes it's hard to separate what you truly find arousing VS what you're conditioned to find arousing. This is excellent food for thought for anyone who's interested in the psychology of sex.

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A modern spin on the oldest tale (and the oldest trade)

By A. Smith on February 24, 2011

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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.

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Interesting

By djr on December 4, 2012

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It's so nice to hear a perspective that doesn't just "go with the flow." It wakes you up and reminds you of how we truly affect / respond to the information that the media feeds us. Reminds us to have positive and realistic interactions based on our real human limitations instead of unrealistic, negative, fantasy porn. This was a quick read.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Not much content here...

By jjnbos on November 16, 2011

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I learned of this from the TED talk of the same name, and there really isn't anything more here. I'd skip this and watch the TED talk, the talk moves along more quickly and makes all the important points...

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An Important, very readable exploration

By David L. Houston on July 7, 2011

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This little book packs a bit of a wallop (no, that's not intended to rhyme with the author's name!). Cindy Gallop is force to be reckoned with, and this book is part of that. Her Ifwerantheworld.com effort dovetails into her expertise around marketing and empowering people, particularly women. You may wonder: what does sex and porn have to do with any of that?

It's simple, really. Porn is out there, and we can dislike it, regulate it (or try to), moralize it, and proselytize against or for it, but it persists and, as she notes, has persisted for almost as long as we've been human. The problem is not porn per se, it's how porn is absorbed by the consumer. From that flows the whole genre of porn that panders not to deeply held desires, but to money and market share, depriving all sexual beings of choice and power. Therein lies the problem.

Ms. Gallop came to this realization through direct experience, a process she is not shy about sharing (but does not indulge in excessive and unwanted detail - a wonderful balance of privacy and kiss-and-tell). The men she was seeing all seemed to approach sex and love from the standpoint of "You Too Can Be Porn Star!", something that she found ultimately disturbing. How, she wondered, are these young men getting their "education" about sex? Why do they assume so many things about what a woman wants, things that, by and large, a lot of women do NOT want? Answer: they learned it by watching porn.

What sets this book apart and makes it, for me, so compelling is her ability to forgo, indeed deny, the usual tired tropes of how porn is awful and everywhere and should be banned, and our children are not safe, blah blah blah.Read more ›

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Innovative

An interesting new perspective on how one develops their sexuality. Reform is necessary to assure a healthy future and the approach she takes is awesome.

Published 8 months ago by vivianne sadlowski

An essential read for people who love to express themselves sexually!

This is a frank and to the point needed discussion we all need about healthy sexual relationships, where as porn is included...not excluded. Read more

Published 14 months ago by David L. Sinkey

A solid orientation on dangers and solutions

Just a quick orientation: Before I read this book, I didn't have a strong stance for or against porn. I'd watched Gallop's talk on Ted. Read more

Published 17 months ago by Scott White

A must read.

Seriously. Read this and absorb it; let your friends know about it, let your parents know about it... Just spread the word! Read more

Published on June 13, 2013 by Luigi Gomes Brandão

LOVE!!!

Please read thisand watch Cindy's TED talk on the TED website. What a great role model and innovative thinker in finding pleasure in the bedroom.

Published on April 24, 2013 by Shanna

She's got a good point

Interesting book about a social problem. She has a wit about her so if you're interested in the subject, read it.

Published on January 22, 2013 by Amazon Customer

Everyone should read this

This is an important topic and I think every young guy should read this to equalize the distorted perspective on sex.

Published on January 7, 2013 by Gregor Schmidinger

A solid personal piece

This was a bit more anecdotal than I expected, but it was an interesting read nonetheless. Several of the low-star reviews include sexist and ageist language, or they accuse the... Read more

Published on January 1, 2013 by Cole

Unqualified and Deceived

Self proclaimed "cougar," Cindy Gallop is neither a therapist, counselor, medical doctor, researcher or even moral activist. Read more

Published on November 29, 2012 by Vegetarian Ninja

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