Anna Arismith: Porn is just part of what I would call a sort of silent sexual revolution that's going on. She disagrees with Jermaine saying that it didn't free people, but we have found in the last 10 to 15 years, women are getting more and more into swinging. A lot of it isn't for money. People just want to go to people and not making money out of this. It's not about money. Dogging is not pornography. Being involved in actual sexual activity is not porn. We're talking about the creation of a kind of literature, film, et cetera, etc. Things that one remove, that's what makes it safe.
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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