There's an awful lot of porn out there that speaks to sexual minorities, and does so in ways precisely because they are repressed. And I think sometimes the absolute literalness of the definition of porn as the right-wing of horrors actually misses or prostitutes. If you're outside it, you don't understand it. But that doesn't mean to say you know anything about those people. We should be clear that we are talking about people whose life choices may not be the same themselves. They are no less appropriate and good for all of that, and intimate,. and intimate, and carnal, and all of those lovely things that we might all want for ourselves.
It’s an issue that only gets more contentious with time - is porn good for us? To debate this issue in 2013, host Viv Groskop was joined by Germaine Greer, Dr Robert Lefever, Anna Arrowsmith, and Dr Clarissa Smith. But how has our cultural outlook swayed and shifted over the past decade? Have conversations about sexual liberation or concerns over children’s access and early exposure to pornographic content moved us beyond the panellists arguments in 2013? Or are we still just as confused as a society. Listen now to find out.
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