Porn Wars
August, 2000
The posters hanging around the University of Colorado-Boulder announced our arrival. I would be debating Gail Dines, head of the women's studies program at Boston's Wheelock College. The topic: "Pornography: His and Hers."I was willing to participate, though it seems to me the debate is over. Porn won. By the industry's estimate, Americans rent 700 million X-rated tapes a year. Men and women who appreciate porn know what to do with their arousal. They borrow sexual energy from the cult...
