Growing Up in a Pornified Culture | Gail Dines | TEDxNavesink
Popular culture bombards us with hypersexualized images of women and men, conveying powerful images that help shape our sexuality. Dr. Gail Dines, recipient of the Myers Center Award for the...
========== Translator: Ilze Garda
Reviewer: Denise RQ Thank you. Today what I'm going to talk about is: what does it mean to grow up
in a pornified culture? What does it mean to live in a society where you are surrounded by images
of hypersexualized, pornified women. What does it mean
when you live in a society where basically pop culture is shaped
by those pornographic images? What I'm going to talk about is how those images shape
gender and sexual identity because today young people grow up
not in a print-based culture - like those of us over the age of 35,
and I'm being nice here - but they grow up
in an image-based culture, so let's wander
through the world they live in. When I lecture to people,
often therapists or parents, they don't re...