Some of the most effective revolutions occur without a single gunshot ever being fired. Indeed, “from rewiring our brains and normalising sexual violence to shaping new protest movements, the pornographic revolution has achieved a stunning and near-total victory”.
This is the grim new regime which Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel’s new volume Pornocracy tears apart in excruciating detail. Through no fault of its authors, their slim volume is gruelling from start to finish. Within the first few pages, readers learn that explicit footage simulating rape, torture, incest, and paedophilia is wildly popular online, and that millions of people are addicted to viewing it.
