Mainstreaming Porn

How porn became social media, why algorithms are shaping our sexual culture in harmful ways, and what the law can do about it.

Mainstreaming Porn reveals how sexual norms, practices, and desires are shaped by corporate platforms such as Pornhub in the same way that social media has affected society at large. It is a powerful argument for law and policy responses to the impact of monopolistic, corporate porn platforms on the contours of sexual integrity in our communities.

Elaine Craig is professor of law, Dalhousie University, and the author of Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession and Troubling Sex: Towards a Legal Theory of Sexual Integrity.

Elaine Craig is professor of law, Dalhousie University, and the author of Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession and Troubling Sex: Towards a Legal Theory of Sexual Integrity.

“Elaine Craig cuts through the middle of polarizing debates about kink, censorship, and radical feminism to grapple with the shifting terrain of mainstream pornography. She has an amazing ability to distil complexity in her writing, and Mainstreaming Porn will be an influential and widely read book.” Lise Gotell, University of Alberta