How to Look at Porn

1 in 5 mobile internet searches are for porn. $3000 a minute is spent on content. But this does not describe the ways that porn has seeped into all corners of modern culture. From Fifty Shades of Grey, to METOO, to the sculptures of Jeff Koons and the posed selfies of instagram influencers, porn is deeply enmeshed in how we think and everything we do. How should we attempt to understand this phenomenon: it is economic question of labour and markets? Of supply and demand? An aesthetic question of perception and composition? A way to organise society or a legal issue about what is acceptable? What does an addiction to pornography actually mean? In How to Look at Porn, Mark Greif urges us not to turn away but see how a society built upon pornography - our society - works.