About this item
For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at pornography in all its facets - historical, religious, and cultural. In the 1960s, sex researchers Masters and Johnson declared the end of the fake orgasm. Nearly two decades later, in 1982, evangelical activist Tim LaHaye foretold that the entire pornography industry would soon be driven out of business. Neither prediction proved true. Instead, with the rise of the internet, pornography saturates the American conscience more than ever and has reshaped our understanding of sexuality, relationships, media, and even the nature of addiction. Dr. Kelsy Burke has spent the last five years researching and interviewing internet pornography's opponents and its sympathizers.
About the Author
Kelsy Burke is associate professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she studies how sex, gender, and religion collide in contemporary America. Her first book examining online Christian sex advice is the award-winning (2016) . She has published numerous scholarly and popular articles on topics ranging from racism in evangelical women's ministries, debates over pornography addiction, as well as religious freedom laws and LGBT rights.
