“He Chose Porn Over Me”: Women Harmed by Men Who Use Porn

Melinda Tankard Reist (editor)

Shattering the popular myth that porn is harmless, the personal accounts of 25 brave women in “He Chose Porn over Me” reveal the real-life trauma experienced by women at the hands of their porn-consuming partners – men who were supposed to care for them.

This confronting but necessary book dares to tell the truth about pornography’s destructive impact – about the men who habitually use it and the women and children who are mistreated and discarded as a result.

The women in this book were collateral damage in their partner’s insatiable greed for porn. Their stories tell of the crushing of intimacy, respect, connection, love. Porn colonised their families, leaving women rejected and scarred. They were subjected to sexual terrorism in their own homes. The men, turbo-charged by pornography, were intoxicated by sexualised power. They didn’t care if they lost everything including their partners.

In this haunting expose, pornography is rightfully situated as an insidious tool of violence against women.

The contributors, now working to re-build their lives, found a confidante in Melinda Tankard Reist who supported them in the sharing of their experiences in these pages, and to warn other women – don’t date men who use porn …

Thanks to the 25 personal stories of women interviewed by anti-porn campaigner and author Melinda Tankard Reist, I found myself strengthened to revisit my own experiences. I no longer felt alone against an invincible foe.

- 4W

Release: Aug-2022

ISBN: 9781925950588

RRP (AUD): $26.95

Pages: 200

Format: Paperback & ebook

Category: pornography, coercive control

Melinda Tankard Reist

Melinda Tankard Reist is an author, speaker, media commentator, blogger and advocate for young people. She is best known for her work addressing sexualisation, objectification, harms of pornography, sexual exploitation, trafficking and violence against women.