What Do We Do About Young Men and Porn? (Your Radical Questions with Jordan Stephens)
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Musician and campaigner Jordan Stephens answers your questions about porn and masculinity.
One half of the hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks, he now also advocates for young men and boys, which is why he was invited to an International Men’s Day reception at Downing Street - so why did he turn it down? He explains in this episode of Your Radical Questions.
* WhatsApp: 0330 123 9480 * Email: radical@bbc.co.uk Amol Rajan is a presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. He is also the host of University Challenge on BBC One. Before that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor at The Independent.
Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made by Lewis Vickers with Anna Budd. Digital production was by Gabriel Purcell-Davis. Technical production was by Ricardo McCarthy. The editor is Sam Bonham. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello and welcome to your radical questions. |
| 0:08.3 | This is where I put your questions to one of our brilliant radical guests, guests like... |
| 0:12.0 | Jordan Stevens. |
| 0:13.1 | That's the man. |
| 0:13.9 | This is your chance to engage directly with the super smart, super interesting people we have on this podcast, |
| 0:18.4 | and basically ask them about their ideas for the future. |
| 1:28.3 | We've been talking about trying to create a sense of community, trying to build a kind of pod squad, go on this journey together. And this is basically one of the ways in which you can get much closer to the amazing people that we've had on this podcast. So we've already done this with the farmer and shepherd James Rebanks with Chris Packham. We've got a couple of absolute crackers coming up with Jamie Oliver and the best-selling writer Naomi Alderman as well. Today, yeah, that's good, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Today I'm joined, you heard his voice there. Today I'm joined by Jordan Stevens, who is known for me one half of the, do you know what? How would you describe Rizzle kicks? What, like as a genre? Yeah. Like hip, pop. That's what Anna said. Anna, our genius, genius producer Anna Budd was chatting to her fiancee, husband, fiancé, fiance, and it was like hop hip hip hip hip. Well, actually, I'd probably say alternative hip hop on a basis that, you know, some people think that it's a slightly different, a pop edge or... But I think alternative hip-pop... But it's because you sing so beautifully and you got... Anyway, I'm being too nice. I also felt for a moment like I was on University Challenge, which was funny because you let me say my name. Things and Buzzers. That's really really funny. Jordan Stevens. Yeah, you did. Jordan Stevens. Let's meet the team from Easton. |
| 1:30.1 | Don't get me excited, bro. |
| 1:33.9 | Jordan is one half of, he's probably best known for this, |
| 1:38.6 | so he's also done a huge amount of activism and writing and acting and so on and so forth. |
| 1:42.3 | He's one half of the alternative hip-hop duo Rizzle Kicks, |
| 1:44.4 | but also someone who's given a lot of thought to the situation facing young men and boys in modern society. And as part of that, he wants to encourage |
| 1:49.6 | open, honest, responsible conversations, not least about the use of porn and the impact that |
| 1:54.3 | that is having on sex and relationships. And he's a man in demand, but he's sticking around to |
| 1:58.9 | answer your questions, which is a sign of how surging this podcast. |
| 2:02.9 | I think this is Britain's mind. It's apart from Miss Me, which you do with McKeeta Roliver, in place of Lily Allen, who's currently being highly successful elsewhere. Smashing it. Smashing it. I would broadly say that Radical is the most exciting podcast in Britain, but then I'm biased. Anyway, you ready for some questions? |
| 2:15.7 | I'm ready. |
| 2:16.4 | Born ready. |
| 2:17.0 | Right, here we go. |
| 2:17.5 | This one is the first one, and it's from Corinne. |
| 2:21.1 | Hello, and us in Britain, but then I'm biased. Anyway, you ready for some questions? I'm ready. Born ready. Right, here we go. This one is the first one and it's from Corrin. |
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