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Gail Dines
Personal blog · gaildines.comculturepolitics
Gail Dines's personal blog at gaildines.com covers culture and politics. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Gail Dines' writing on pornography and the sex industry. One thread discusses her call for empirical evidence on violent porn, and the commenter questions why such evidence is lacking.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dr. Gail Dines has been writing about the porn industry and sexual violence for more than 3 decades. Learn more here.
What Hacker News says?
I was just stating that not everyone wins, regardless of the correct moral conclusion regarding sex work (including the existence of pornography and the sex industry.) I was being quite neutral, saying, that at a minimum the philosophers and feminists who have to debate and decide this stuff don't win, since they have better things to be doing. I don't know how else to put it other than the link I included - this is…
Comment linking /pornland/pornland-about-the-book/
on “Three Stories”Submitted So you think you know what porn is? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Dr Gail Dines, professor of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College, Boston, and a prominent anti-porn campaigner. > Until we [...] have actual empirical evidence So she claims shes a scholar, and shes calling for empirical evidence. This piqued my interest, she's probably worked on some papers in this area - why doesn't she have empirical evidence? Is there a good reason it is hard to come by? I looked…
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on “Why Are So Many Women Searching for Ultra-Violent Porn?”