The Fallacy of Government

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I don't think that laws against pornography are going to do anything else but just drive it further underground or wherever. The question is how do we get less repressed? In the meantime, given that's quite a lofty, perhaps long term goal, in the meantime perhaps we enjoy a little bit of porn. I'm going to take some questions from up here please. Say your name and whether you're for or against the motion.Marcus Worre: My point first is that culture affects attitudes towards different things. For example, attitudes towards sexuality between Scandinavia and the UK have always been different. This relates back to the point about repressed and picking up on Jermaine Greer's

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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