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It's estimated that porn constitutes ~30% of all internet traffic. One company dominates much of that traffic -- MindGeek -- but is not a household name. There are very few discussions about porn, yet porn is being consumed in huge amounts. It's as if porn does not exist in our regular everyday dimension, yet its influence can be felt everywhere. It has a particular effect on Asian American men, where discussions about masculinity, race, and social status are seemingly inflected by porn, yet porn itself is conspicuously absent from view. Jong, Diana, and Teen break this silence and step into the Porn Dimension to try and figure out what this tsunami of porn is doing to us as Asian Americans and the way we relate (or don't relate) to one another.

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

The Joy Fuck Club, Darrell Hamamoto

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07393149808429832

Pornography: Men Possessing Women, Andrea Dworkin

https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Andrea-DWORKIN-Pornography-Men-Possessing-Women-1981.pdf

The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf

https://shamelesslyunladylike.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/the-beauty-myth-naomi-wolf.pdf

Pornography, Margaret Atwood

https://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/92.html

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