“Pornography is good for us: without it we would be a far more repressed society.”That is the subject of a debate to held by Intelligence Squared, a forum for discussion in London, this evening.
Anna Arrowsmith, feminist pornographic film director who works under the pseudonym Anna Span, and runs a campaign website for people who work in the sex industry called Consent.org, told the Today programme’s Sarah Montague that pornography can keep couples together by pornography’s use “as a stop gap”, if there is a discrepancy between couple’s sex drives.
“It’s democratized the body” she said, adding that “in the porn industry there is a market for everything”.
Germaine Greer, feminist author, academic and broadcaster, indicated that it may not be quite as beneficial.
“Pornography is an industry… [it] is the literature of prostitution,” she said.
“Pornography is strictly a way to make money,” she added.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday 23 April 2013.
That would be the same Anna Arrowsmith (aka Anna Span) who appeared at that Cambridge University porn debate two years go where Shelley Lubben imploded, right??
Don’t ger me started. She must be in league with Satan to have defeated me!