Dr. Robert LaFever: I don't know if pornography is good for us without it. We would be a far more repressed society. Clarissa Smith: There is no one porn industry. And some of them look much more like your sole trader artist than they do a big budget studio. She's the author of the first large-scale study of audiences engaging with sexual media and co-editor of Academic Quarterly Journal Pawn Studies.
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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