The Importance of Silence in Voting

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Lefieva: Pornography is good for us. Is it good for me? I don't know. If you find it's good for you, then, believe you. But whether it’s good for us as a society is a different matter. Professor Jermaine Greer spoke against the motion and said he 'would doubt' porn helped people in general. The panel will each speak for two minutes in reverse order before returning to their closing remarks. Lefieva asked if she could ask who was thinking of her when we say "us"

Hooray for porn! What would we be without it? Bored, repressed, frustrated. Porn allows the timid to indulge fantasies they’d never live out in real life and the adventurous to experiment with new forms of pleasure. Now that it has stepped down from the top shelf and waltzed across the internet we can all enjoy it. All we need to do is stop pretending it’s something dirty and come straight out and salute it. Or maybe not. Porn after all is selling a lie: that women are always eager to engage in extreme practices, that bodies are always tanned and buffed, orgasms explosive. Isn’t this a recipe for frustration and disappointment? And to attract the restless voyeur, porn is always having to up the ante – cyber-sex is getting ever more degrading and extreme. Men are finding it harder to be satisfied with their real world partners, women are feeling inadequate and pressured to live up to the cyber-competition – this is the reality of pornland. So which is it – the great liberator of the libido or a blight on...

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