The Porn Myth
By Matt Fradd, Ignatius, £14
This book, written by a Christian author and published by a religious publisher, takes a strictly secular and scientific line in demolishing the myth that porn is not dangerous. As the subtitle puts it, the book is “exposing the reality behind the fantasy of pornography”.
Attractively written in accessible language, the book explains that there is good scientific foundation for the belief that porn is addictive. This is not simply to say that porn gives pleasure, and people like pleasure. Rather, porn changes the wiring of your brain, and enslaves you to the images you see, in such a way that you constantly require harder images to satisfy your craving.
