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Woman's Hour

Audio porn, Earthquake impact on women, Author Ayòbámi Adébáyo, A listener on leaving the Church of England

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The number of women watching porn is on the increase, according to one of the world’s most popular sites. They say around a third of its viewers are female and growing. There’s also a new type of porn that is said to be gaining popularity among some women – audio porn. You might wonder, what it is and why it might appeal to women. Caroline Spiegel is the founder of an erotic audio app called Quinn, one of many apps out there, and Dr Caroline West, consent educator at University of Galway and host of the Glow West sexual wellness podcast. The earthquakes in southern Turkey and northern Syria have killed nearly 16,000 people. As rescuers work to save people still trapped in the rubble, the World Health Organisation has raised concerns that without shelter, water, fuel or electricity, many more lives are at risk. Today the Disasters Emergency Committee launched its appeal to raise funds to provide aid to the survivors. Racha Nasreddine, Director for ActionAid in the Arab Region tells Anita how women and girls are being affected. On yesterday’s Woman’s Hour we briefly discussed the Church of England’s decision not to back a change in teaching to permit clergy to conduct same-sex marriages. Listener Suzanne Elvidge contacted the programme to share her recent letter to her Bishop and her local clergy explaining why she felt she had no choice but to leave the Church after a lifelong membership. She joins Anita to discuss her decision. For our series Girl's World, Ena Miller took her dog-eared teenage diary to a school in Glasgow to talk to Saskia, Francesca and Olivia, who are all 14, about changing attitudes to sex and gender. Six years after her acclaimed debut novel Stay With Me was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction, Nigerian writer Ayòbámi Adébáyo joins Anita to talk about her highly-anticipated second work of fiction, A Spell Of Good Things, a state-of-the-nation story exploring the divide between rich and poor, as Nigeria transitioned back into democracy in 2000.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.2

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.6

Good morning.

0:12.0

Once again, I'm caught in the glare of ageism and misogyny that permeates the world we live

0:17.1

in, a world that refuses to celebrate women past the age of 45 and feels the need to punish

0:23.0

her as she continues to be strong-willed, hard-working and adventurous.

0:28.3

Not my words, as many people who follow me on Instagram thought, including my dad, these

0:32.5

are the words of Madonna after the Grammys.

0:35.6

Once again, the conversation turned to the way she looks and what she may or may not have

0:39.5

had done to her face.

0:41.5

So this morning I want your thoughts about this.

0:43.8

Have your experiences of getting older, maybe getting older, what have they been like?

0:48.3

Do you find that you have to fight harder to be noticed?

0:51.0

Stay relevant, feel beautiful, whatever it might be, and why is that?

0:55.4

How do you feel about the way you look, the older you get?

0:58.4

I want your real world experiences of sexism and misogyny in judgment, the older you've

1:03.1

got or maybe you haven't.

1:04.4

Be honest with me this morning, when you first noticed those laughter lines, did your

1:08.4

heart sink?

1:09.4

Or are you embracing each wrinkle with a sense of pride?

1:12.9

And like Madonna, again, not my words, but I'm in full support.

1:16.8

Do you look forward to many years of subversive behaviour, pushing boundaries, standing up to

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