Siswan Toulouis, 55, is fascinated by the porn culture. She says it's extraordinary that we've been talking about this for years and nothing has happened. Do you feel there is a case for porn at all online? Or do you feel it should just be blocked for the under 18s? How liberal should we be in our attitudes to adult pornography? And why are we so relaxed about things like Pornhub? We lasted however many hundreds of thousands of years without access to online porn I think we can probably cope.
Louise Perry has been described as the most influential young feminist in Britain. She claims in her book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution that the contemporary world of rough sex, hook-up culture and ubiquitous porn is harming women and she calls for a radical challenge to what she sees as the failed liberal feminism of the 20th century. Meanwhile writer Mary Harrington argues that the belief in the progressive march of history is misguided and that new technology, far from liberating women, has trapped them into commodifying their bodies in the false belief that they are empowering themselves. In this conversation hosted by Alice Thompson, columnist and interviewer at The Times, they present their case for why they think progress is at odds with feminism.
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