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Unmasking the lies behind the selling of porn as ‘just a bit of fun’ Big Porn Inc reveals the shocking truths of an industry that trades in violence, crime and degradation. This fearless book will change the way you think about pornography.

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Contributor Meagan Tyler from Victoria University, Australia was a speaker at the Challenging Porn Conference, at London Metropolitan University in early December 2011.

Big Porn Inc is a hugely necessary, radical and rousing work, full of big thoughts and big truths about the all-consuming pornographic worldview. --Jane Caputi, creator, The Pornography of Everyday Life DVD

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Melinda Tankard Reist (www.melindatankardreist.com) is an author, speaker, media commentator, blogger and advocate for women and girls. She is known for her work addressing harms to women and girls through sexualisation, objectification, violence, pornography, trafficking. She is author/editor of four books including Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls (Spinifex Press, 2009), the biggest selling title for Spinifex, and Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global pornography industry (Spinifex Press, 2011, co-edited with Dr Abigail Bray). Melinda’s frequent media appearances have included ABC Q&A and The Gruen Sessions. Melinda is co-founder of the grassroots campaigning movement, Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, exposing corporations, advertisers and marketers who objectify women and sexualise girls to sell products and services. Melinda is an ambassador with World Vision Australia, Compassion and The Raise Foundation. She is also named in the Who’s Who of Australian Women and the World Who’s Who of Women. Other works by Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words (2000) Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics (2007) Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls (2009) Other works by Abigail Bray Hélène Cixous: Writing and Sexual Difference (2004) Body Talk: A Power Guide for Girls (2005) with Elizabeth Reid Boyd

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