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Does Porn Make the Man?

By Robert Jensen, South End Press. Posted November 17, 2007.


Most men have, at some point, feared not being masculine enough, especially in the bedroom. Pornography speaks to that fear.

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Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and the author of, most recently, The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights Books).

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