SWAJ Rewind: The Great American Pornography Wars

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

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🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 700-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Brad speaks with Dr. Kelsy Burke, a sociologist from the University of Nebraska, who discusses her new book The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Obscene Obsession. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/pornography-wars-9781635577365/ Burke spent the last five years researching and interviewing internet pornography's opponents and its sympathizers. She does a deep dive into the long history of pornography in America and then turns her gaze on our present society to examine the ways this industry touches on the most intimate parts of American lives. She offers a complete understanding of the major players in the debates around porn's place in society: everyone from sex workers, activists, therapists, religious leaders, and consumers. In doing so, she addresses and debunks the myths that surround porn and porn usage while showing how everything from the way we teach children about sex to the legal protections for what can be published is tied up in the deeply complicated battles over pornography. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.7	Yeah. from our amazing lineup of creators. Welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
1:07.4	My name is Brad Onishi, faculty at the University of San Francisco,
1:11.3	our show is hosted in partnership with the CAP Center at UCSB. And today I have an amazing guest to talk
1:16.5	about a rich and provocative book. And that is Dr. Kelsey Burke. So Dr. Berk, Kelsey, thanks for
1:23.2	joining me. Thank you so much, Brad. I'm a big fan of yours. I will say I'm a huge fan of yours. The book
1:29.4	you've written here is just sort of marvelous. It's called The Pornography Wars, the Past, Present, and Future of America's Obscene Obsession.
1:37.3	And before I jump into just asking you all about it, I'll just say that Dr. Burke is an award-winning sociologist who is an associate
1:46.0	professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Her work has been supported by
1:52.4	all kinds of grants and fellowships, the National Science Foundation, and other places. And her
1:59.8	writing has appeared at the Washington Post and Newsweek, Salon, and Slate Foundation and other places, and her writing has appeared at the Washington Post
2:01.4	and Newsweek, Salon, and Slate, and other outlets. I'm not going to lie, I do this for a living.
2:07.7	I get to do this every week. And usually I feel pretty good about like, hey, here's the questions
2:11.7	I want to ask. And after like sort of approaching your book, I tried to send you five or six questions, and I really had like
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