Pornification of society

I've just read a very useful article by Neil Davenport on Spiked. He suggests that the sexualisation of society is better characterised as the pornification of society because 'sex is portrayed only as heightened visual arousal or sniggering titillation which, divorced from actual intimacy, isn’t really sex at all'. The critics of raunchy pop videos, he suggests, are not usually prudes but people who are concerned about the erosion of the distinction between childhood and adulthood, or the erosion of the distinction between the public and private sphere. The substantial issues, he concludes, are 'about reclaiming intimacy, privacy and maturity'.