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Polly Barton & Amelia Abraham: Porn An Oral History

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The Difference Between Good Porn and Bad Porn

I heard you speak about someone being shocked at their partner having like watched porn, but not actually kind of addressing their addiction to porn that they mentioned. And I was wondering how you think you can keep the privacy and the kind of pleasure that you can experience in porn while being able to kind of speak to and address porn addiction in a way that doesn't kind of trivialize it. When you are engaging in something erotically, it's with your whole being. So for her, the pornographic is very much not that. It's probably good porn and bad porn to the extent that you can define them as transcending the subjective.

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