"A terrifying, urgent and necessary book that reveals the cost to all of us of living in the world that porn built. You won't read anything more important."
Helen Joyce, author of Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights
Pornocracy is a searing indictment of pornography's pervasive influence on how we have sex, see each other, and live our daily lives. With clarity, evidence, and passion, it documents how pornography teaches sexism, harms relationships, and feeds sexual violence."
Professor Michael Flood, author of Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention
Pornocracy is a howl of resistance against the machinery of mass degradation. In this compelling and urgent work, Bartosch and Jessel lay bare how porn is reshaping our brains, our relationships, and our culture. We're at a crossroads: one path leads to deeper dehumanisation; the other demands we reclaim sex, love and dignity. Read this book. Then choose your side."
Derrick Jensen, ecophilosopher and author of Language Older Than Words and Endgame
"Every parent and every lawmaker should read this book. Pornocracy is enlightening and terrifying — vividly showing how the pornification of our culture is hardwiring our brains into a dystopian view of sex, women and children that threatens our whole society.
If you think it's prudish to worry about Pornhub or Only Fans, this book will tell you why you're wrong and why we need to act now-before it's too late."
Julia Hartley-Brewer, broadcaster and journalist
"A gripping account of how this dangerous industry has risen to such heights that it is now determining our cultural norms."
Julie Bindel, The Spectator
"Excellent... makes an unanswerable case against a gruesome industry."
Victoria Smith, The Critic
"A terrifying wake-up call."
Jenny Lindsay, The Scotsman
"Anyone who reads Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel's new compendium of horror Pornocracy cannot fail to be convinced."
Poppy Sowerby, UnHerd
"In Pornocracy, Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel drag the subject kicking and screaming into the spotlight, forcing the reader to look at the inherently disgusting issue in depth."
Entertainment Focus
"The problems that the book describes feel urgent, desperately in need of a solution to protect young people and the entire future of love, sex, and romance."
The Dispatch
"Pornocracy is a provocative and essential read for anyone concerned about the future of sexuality, relationships and society."
Baroness Gertin, The House
"Every lawmaker and educator in the land – and anyone naive enough to think pornography is essentially a harmless pastime – should be forced to read this gripping indictment of the billion-dollar global industry and its insidious stranglehold on human desire."
Daily Express
"makes a compelling and rightfully angry case against pornography."
Christianity Today
"The book does not seek to stoke a moral panic, but rather to critique a form of 'limbic capitalism' that has grown adept at hijacking desire coupled with a culture that cannot seem to just say no to porn."
Compact, The Best Books of 2025
"excellent"
The Catholic Herald
