Dr. Robert Jensen is an emeritus professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin, and a founding board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center.

Dr. Robert Jensen has been part of the anti-pornography movement since the 80s.

He has done extensive research and how society has

been affected by pornography with a particular focus on how pornography shapes men's behaviors and

beliefs, teaching this topic through books, articles, and speaking engagements. In this episode,

Dr. Jensen explains how we're living in an age of extreme pornography, how normalized sexism and racism have become in mainstream pornography, and how it's affecting children and the way they're growing up.

Listen, as Dr. Robert Jensen discusses the importance of having conversations with our kids about the harmful effects of porn, modeling healthy interactions, and start

changing the conversation about pornography in our own homes and communities.

With that, let's jump into the conversation.

We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming.

Bob, thank you so much for being here with us today and giving us some of your time.

I'm really excited about this conversation.

And for any of our listeners who might be unfamiliar with who you are, can you tell us

a little bit about yourself and how you got involved in this work?

Sure.

I was a newspaper reporter back in my 20s in a previous

century. And I wandered back to graduate school so I could become a college teacher.

And my interest lay in First Amendment law, freedom of expression. And at the time, this was the late 1980s the feminist

critique of pornography was a central part of the debate about what it means to

have free speech and so without any feminist background or any knowledge of

the issue I kind of wandered into reading, found it incredibly intriguing, ended up writing a

dissertation and then making it a central part of not only my intellectual academic life,

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