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Polly Barton & Amelia Abraham: Porn An Oral History

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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The Interplay Between Fantasy and Reality in Porn Production

There's a line between seeing what we were just saying, the line between seeing and doing. And then also fantasy versus reality in terms of how porn can tilt our expectations of what sex is and what sex should be. Someone in the book says, are we just acting out porn every time we have sex? Where's the pleasure?

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