At a time where women are more vocal than ever about our lives, there’s an elephant in the room when it comes to porn. Most women aren’t talking to each other about what they do and don’t do with it, and no one is asking the questions we all have about how it might be affecting us. Pornhub claims at least a third of their current user base are women, and a study from the British Board of Film Classification found a difference of just 18% between the use of young boys and young girls. In a world where porn sites get more visitors each month than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined, what we need is a ‘me too’ moment for porn.

Combining popular culture, research and thinking from the past thirty years, with real-life accounts taken from one hundred women aged from 18 –70, Women on Porn answers the call for an accessible, informed, evidence- based exploration of what pornography means for women (and to us all). Women on Porn claims that we’ve been thinking about women and porn all wrong. We are used to dividing women into those who watch porn and love it, and those who don’t and are scared of it, jealous of it, or hate it. Women who are in it are either empowered or exploited and it either helps or harms those who use it, with no space in between. But given the ubiquity of men’s use and porn’s place in popular culture, these simple stories no longer fit. It’s time to have the conversation we need to have about the real extent of porn’s impact.