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Woman's Hour

Teenage boys and AI, Lynsey Addario, Choking porn law

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A survey of boys in secondary schools by Male Allies UK has found that just over a third said they were considering the idea of an AI friend. With growing concern about the rise of AI therapists and girlfriends, Lee Chambers, the founder and chief executive of Male Allies UK, and feminist sociologist Professor Jessica Ringrose, join Nuala McGovern to discuss the potential effect these AI companions could have on the mental health of teenage boys.

Pornography featuring strangulation or suffocation - often called choking - is due to be criminalised across the UK as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls. It follows an independent review which found depictions of choking were "rife" on mainstream porn sites and had helped normalise the act among young people. Gemma Kelly, policy consultant on the review, and Professor Clare McGlynn, leading expert on VAWG and gender equality, discuss.

The latest edition of the popular Football Manager video game features female football players and managers for the first time in its history. The game has been played by 19 million people and has origins that go back 30 years. We hear from Tina Keech, head of women's football research at Sports Interactive, the company behind Football Manager. Over the past 25 years Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer Lynsey Addario has covered almost every major conflict of the modern era. She’s been kidnapped twice - once in Iraq and once in Libya - yet continues to return to the frontlines, driven to tell the stories of those caught in conflict. A new documentary, Love + War, follows her extraordinary career and what it’s like returning home at the end of an assignment to ‘normal’ life with her partner and two children.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.

0:07.3

Hello, I'm Kimberly Wilson. I'm a psychologist, and in my new podcast, Complex, I'll be your guide

0:14.4

through all the information and misinformation that's out there about mental health.

0:19.0

I'm joined by expert guests covering topics

0:21.8

from people pleasing to perfectionism,

0:24.2

burnout to empathy,

0:25.9

to find tangible advice

0:27.3

so we can understand ourselves a little better.

0:30.5

Complex with me, Kimberly Wilson.

0:33.0

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:35.7

Hello, this is Neula McGovern, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast.

0:40.9

Hello and welcome to the programme.

0:43.2

Well, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo journalist Lindsay Adario is with us this hour.

0:47.8

The camera is turned this time on her for a fascinating new documentary.

0:52.3

It's called Love and War.

0:53.4

It's all about her extraordinary

0:54.7

life and career. I'm looking forward to speaking to her. Also, we want to look at a survey that

1:00.6

revealed that a third of boys aged 11 to 15 believe women's rights are unimportant. And more than

1:08.6

half surveyed said that they find the online world more rewarding than the real world.

1:14.6

Well, we're going to chat about some of that thinking and the conversations that need to take place around it.

1:20.9

Plus, what can FM26, the latest edition of the popular football manager computer game series,

1:27.1

do for women's football.

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