We teamed up with Julia Williams from Seen in Publishing to talk to Jo Bartosch about Pornocracy - the expose of the multi-billion-dollar pornography industry that she’s written with Rob Jessel, from LGB Alliance.

Jo explains how widespread acceptance of male porn consumption is causing devastating harm and has - as the authors put it ‘gripped humanity in a chokehold’.

We talk about the reluctance of men to acknowledge the harm caused by the normalisation of violent and transgressive porn, the ‘trans to porn’ pipeline, the view of women as a resource, to the literal rewiring of our brains by on demand sexual violence. Pornocracy, published at the weekend by Polity, hit the ground running and is already selling out.

Seen in Publishing worked with Sex Matters earlier this year on a report exposing the capture of the publishing industry by gender activism. We discuss with Julia the impact of that capture, the bravery of the publishers who reject it, and whether changing cultural attitudes on gender may also have an impact on the acceptance of pornography.

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Pornocracy is on sale with Amazon, Waterstones, Apple, Google Play, and all good bookshops.

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