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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

What pornography is doing to your boy's brain

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3914 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 138 minutes

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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio; to join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning. Three minutes after ten is the time and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC, for which I thank you.

0:06.6

Quite a lot to get through today. I think it's fair to say. I'm drawn to these stories, or the story, regarding the relaunch of the attempt to somehow regulate online pornography to introduce some sort of age limit.

0:19.4

And I worry a little that not for the first time, I got a bit distracted by the red herring

0:25.6

or by the wrong bit of the story.

0:27.3

Like, well, how hard is it going to be to introduce the technology?

0:29.5

Whereas really, the question I think should be, how important is this legislation?

0:33.8

And I'll be asking mothers, I think, later in the program, how you feel your son's attitude to sex and associated matters, women in particular, has been affected by this proliferation of pornography that anybody of my generation finds almost impossible to contemplate existing when we were, you know, getting excited about your

0:56.5

mate's, Dad's Dirty Magazine being found in the back of the garden shed or something like that.

1:00.4

So I am intrigued by that, but I'm also conscious of how ignorant I am of a lot of the issues.

1:06.3

I want to return to the question of housing purchases as well, although poor old Kirstie Alsop has been taking a bit of a kicking from all corners on that one.

1:15.6

There is, though, a major problem with the continuing perception that the reason why young people can't get on the property ladder.

1:22.2

And not just young people anymore, of course, that age goes up, is because they spend all their time on holiday or watching Netflix.

1:30.0

I don't think at this point in the programme we will be talking about the West Ham footballer

1:34.6

and regular listeners will know I bear no warm will towards West Ham United at the moment.

1:40.5

They broke my heart twice on Saturday in the most astonishing of circumstances.

1:46.5

But at the moment, I'm not planning on having a conversation about a footballer kicking a cat,

1:51.7

except to mention that Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper considers it to be the most important story of the day.

1:58.6

But I reserve the right to be wrong and to wade into that epic saga

2:03.4

a little later in the program. I'm going to begin, though, with this Kirstama story. And the

2:10.6

question I am going to ask you, very simply, is this. Is the Prime Minister responsible for the attacks upon Kirstama and his colleagues

2:21.0

yesterday? And the answer is obviously yes, but only in part. And the reason I would say that

2:29.8

to you is because the element of the abuse and attack directed at the leader of the opposition

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