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Barton's uncertainty is key to the success of her project, opening it up for discussion rather than narrowing around polemic After finishing the book I found myself talking to friends about porn in a way I never had before Much of our contemporary economy is constructed to hook us to online platforms on which porn makes up a vast amount of content, accessible to anyone old enough to work a phone To avoid thinking about the cultural significance of that is not just absurd, but a denial of both responsibility and reality Barton wants to restore our ability to deal with this stuff, and the first step, as she puts it, is to talk about it, Sophie Elmhirst, Sunday Times Book of the Week I found my time with Porn An Oral History unexpectedly moving Barton s candid, generous style as an interlocutor allows her subjects to move fluidly between their sometimes contradictory instincts and intellectual approaches in a way which feels revelatory and totally honest and human A pleasure to read, and a vital new work for anyone interested in sex and its representation, Megan Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation