Pamela Paul is an author and journalist. Her most recent book, PORNIFIED: How the Culture of Pornography is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships and Our Families, published by Times Books/Henry Holt in September 2005, was named one of the Best Books of the Year by The San Francisco Chronicle.

Paul is also the author of The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony, published by Villard/Random House in 2002, and a contributor to TIME magazine.

Porn is everywhere - not just in cybersex and "Playboy" but in popular video games, advice columns, and reality television shows, and on the bestseller lists. Even more striking, as porn has become affordable, accessible, and anonymous, it has become increasingly acceptable - and a big part of the personal lives of many men and women. In this controversial and critically acclaimed book, Pamela Paul argues that as porn becomes more pervasive, it is destroying our marriages and families as well as distorting our children's ideas of sex and sexuality. Based on more than one hundred interviews and a nationally representative poll, "Pornified" exposes how porn has infiltrated our lives, from the wife agonizing over the late-night hours her husband spends on porn Web sites to the parents stunned to learn their twelve-year-old son has seen a hardcore porn film.