John Stoltenberg

This is another text (in addition to Intercourse), that should be in the library of every high school and be read by every male-identified student before they can call themselves properly educated and prepared for the modern world. Every chapter and paragraph of this book is important to forming a healthy modern psyche that deconstructs the unfortunately male supremacist ideology that surrounds us in the most common push media sources. A fresh, fully realized vision, important questions are show more raised and solutions are attempted, but the reader's awakening is the most valuable take-away. Like Dworkin, Stoltenberg has an excellent way with words and descriptors that verges on the poetic at times (but Dworkin is still the more potent wordsmith).
The most important part: if one identifies as male, read it, read it, read it. show less

As another reviewer noted, this book does little to address the question of the title. What it does do is describe in detail a "workshop" the author designed to offer men a different perspective on pornography. While the author clearly has personal opinions on the impact of pornography, he mostly keeps these to himself, as he says he does in his workshops.

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Stoltenberg created a workshop in which men imitate in show more detail the poses and facial expressions of models in pornographic magazines. Others watch and offer suggestions to accurately reproduce the pose. Participants then take part in a guided discussion to help understand the experience. Stoltenberg says having men assume these poses, and seeing other men do so (instead of women, who we are more accustomed to seeing) almost always brings about an entirely new way of understanding pornography and how it affects both the audience and the models.

This book would be most useful for a person or group planning to run such a workshop themselves, as Stoltenberg lays out in great detail every step of his process. In some ways, this is more a manual of such a workshop than anything else, with added description of the author's own experience of participants' reactions. show less

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If only more men of conscience were as courageous to speak out our societal structure would be different, it would be better, for women and men alike.