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Polly Barton & Amelia Abraham: Porn An Oral History

London Review Bookshop Podcast

CHAPTER

The Transgressiveness of Porn

When I was younger, I didn't find kind of straight up porn very sexy. But the things that I did find sexy, scenes from films and stuff, were so much sexier because it felt so forbidden. And someone talks about having to adjust their TV aerial as a child in order to get this specific channel - they would see little flashes of penises amid all this blur and buzz. The desire to match that is so great, but I haven't got anything. It is quite important, but once I got off to a GIF, I saw of Justin Bieber's penis. Which is quite extra weird because I'm not straight. He told me I was going to drop some... Yeah

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