The BBC have decided to put this debate in the hands of two feminists instead of contacting the experts on GFY. In one corner we have a feminist in her 70's who thinks that porn should be banned so as boyfriends don't ask their girlfriends to get a full Brazilian, in the other corner we have a feminist who beleives porn helps amputee and obese women to realize that there are men out there who find them attractive too, and that porn helps keep couples stay together when one still has a sex drive and the other one doesn't. Let's see who wins, you decide
Video: Is porn good for you?
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"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.
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