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Pornistan: How to Survive the Porn Epidemic in India Kindle Edition

by Aditya Gautam (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Do you know what porn does to you? We all know what it does to our body, but what about our mind? Internet porn: endless variety of hardcore, sexual videos streaming at the click of a button. We have all seen it. Our intimate partners have seen it. Most kids by the time they are eleven have seen it too. Why do we humans watch porn in the first place? What role is porn playing in the Indian sexual revolution? Is porn spicing up or ruining our relationships? Should parents let their kids watch porn? Can watching porn make us promiscuous or affect a man's libido? Should we ban porn? Is internet porn hindering or facilitating the sexual liberation of Indian women? Pornistan answers these and tells you everything else you absolutely must know in today's porn-induced sexual culture. Interviews with India's leading experts, latest studies and experiments from around the world, statements from world famous porn-stars, scientists and doctors, some incredibly relatable short stories and some amazing illustrations Pornistan will entertain you, shock you, inform you and leave you with a deeper understanding of how human sexuality works. Pornsitan the sex education you didn't receive at school.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07FXTRNJN
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Readomania (25 July 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3466 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 187 pages
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Aditya Gautam

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Born in Delhi and did his schooling from Noida. He has lived and worked in Australia for more than a decade. Aditya currently splits his time between Noida and Melbourne.

He is the author of - "Pornistan- How to survive the porn epidemic in India". Published by Readomania, Pornistan is available on Amazon and book stores all across India. The book has been an Amazon bestseller and has received rave reviews. Pornistan was featured in a BBC documentary and Aditya has been dubbed as one of the most exciting young Indian writers by Homegrown.in

His short story 'Mission Orgasm' was recently published by Readomania in their erotica short story collection- 'Readomania book of erotica'.

Aditya worked with the Aam Aadmi Party from December 2011 to Feb 2013. During this time he was the assistant editor for the newspaper 'Aap Ki Kranti'. He was responsible for conducting interviews, investigating stories, writing and editing articles for the newspaper.

He worked as a regular content writer for AAP's Facebook page. He also wrote and acted in street plays across Delhi. (No current association with the Political outfit).

Aditya has been a freelance content writer for 'Indiatimes.com', 'The Quint' 'Indus Age' and other digital media outlets. He has directed and shot a short film which was screened at the Kochi international film festival. He has also shot and directed a documentary 'Indians in Australia' which currently has 90K views on YouTube.

Aditya currently works as a freelance SEO content writer where he writes about various subjects, including the solar energy industry. He is also a stand-up comedian and has performed in sold-out shows at the Adelaide Fringe Festival and is currently working on his next book.

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Lakshya M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in India on 18 February 2024
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This book is excellent but I would request the writer not to repeat the same information again and again in further editions. Almost 10 pages are more than the actual content.

Still, a valuable book. Go for it.
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Niti
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read!! Porn ...the Good, the bad and the ugly
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 August 2018
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I wasnt sure about this book as I have never cared much for porn but a friend recommended it to me so I gave it a go and I was blown away.

Being an Indian girl of millenials generation, my exposure to porn or even definition of it has been limited to Kate winslet's boobs in Titanic, the odd erotica in Ken Follet's books and an evening with hostel friends where we rented 'Khooni Dracula' from an adult cable store (which I fell asleep in).

But this book is not about ur experience/ curiosity (or in my case inexperience) about porn, its about understanding how our brains are wired, how porn industry works on it/ against it and how the fantasy world of porn has a very real effect on our sex life with our partners and more so the potential ill effects it has on the young minds of our kids. This is the age of internet, easy access, curious minds, we need to understand it to deal with it.
Dont confuse this book to be a moral code of some sorts. The author doesnt dictate whats good or bad. He simply tells u how it is ...backed with mind blowing research references and some really interesting short stories which will make you go " Me too". Highly recommend it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read but more importantly a must read for everyone!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 December 2018
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One of the best accounts of what is a massively unspoken and unaddressed problem in india. Couldn’t have come at a better time - great read, highly recommend!
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Jagadish Nadanalli
5.0 out of 5 stars It's just so dope...
Reviewed in India on 19 September 2018
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Who hasn't watched porn but everyone tries to hide their experience of watching it under the carpet. That's what this book asks not to do. Neither it asks us to gorge on it. It simply put forth the different aspects of watching porn including the beginning of porn to how it has evolved in this digital era. It not only discusses the effect of watching porn on men, women and kids alike but also gives a comprehensive view through researches that have been conducted regarding porn for several years. I really liked the way author has entertainingly tried to infuse the information into the readers mind through several characters, short stories etc. Wish we had such books while we were growing up, we would have learnt a lot. I highly recommend this book to everyone especially to teenagers who are on the brink of their dopamine ascendency. Aditya Gautam, dude, your book was so dope.
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Subrata Datta
4.0 out of 5 stars A Necessary Reading
Reviewed in India on 20 February 2019
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I first became curious about Aditya Gautam’s Pornistan when I saw it featured in a BBC news bulletin. If BBC chooses to feature an unknown Indian author in its regular news bulletin, his books merits a look.

And it does.

A couple of years ago I read - and was impressed by - Gary Wilson's Your Brain on Porn. That was primarily in the American and Western context.

Gautam has put the issue of internet pornography in the Indian context.

You need not be a rocket scientist to see that pornography, especially internet pornography, is radically changing the Indian society. It's most frightening consequence is probably the increased atrocities on women - irrespective of age. From urban India to smaller cities to rural hinterland, abuse of women has become so commonplace that newspaper headlines do not shock us any longer.

The dilemma is, you cannot ban internet. And as long as there is internet, pornography is within an easy reach. Experience worldwide shows that adult content remains the biggest driver of the growth of internet.

What to do then? The smartphone - and pornography being just a click away - reaches the young Indian at an ever younger age. The result? His - and increasingly her - physical, emotional, psychological and social life is being torn asunder.

Relationships are being ravaged like never before.

If pornography cannot be banned - and it cannot - at least one can do the next best thing: to educate about the perils of pornography.

That is what Gautam has done and has succeeded doing admirably.

Written almost in a tongue-in-the-cheek fashion, Gautam, in the small 200-page book, traverses the whole gamut. How our brain circuitry determines our attraction to pornography. Younger the age of exposure, stronger the addiction. Looking at the business of pornography through the eyes of the actors of the adult entertainment industry. What do the doctors and counsellors have to say. What do the parents should do.

He cautions of the future too. From temple erotica to gupt jnan to VCRs to DVDs to blue rays to internet to tube porn, pornography - like the rest of society - is poised for a big leap: Virtual Reality porn.

We can hardly imagine how that society will really look like. We can only educate ourselves - and our children.

In the midst of this depressingly disorienting social scenario, it is heartening to know that there are people like Aditya Gautam who are mounting a valiant, if difficult, battle.

Pornistan is a necessary reading.
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