Woman's Hour special: How is porn shaping our sex lives and relationships?
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Over the past few weeks, Woman’s Hour has been having a frank conversation about pornography. Four women spoke about how porn has shaped their relationships, sex lives and self-image. Three men spoke openly together about their attitudes to and experience of porn. The film-maker Erika Lust explained why she wants to make ‘ethical’ porn and Dr Fiona Vera-Grey explains what she’s found out through the research and surveys she has done about pornography and by talking to 100 women for her book Women On Porn.
In this special podcast episode, our reporter Ena Miller guides you through the stories and conversations you might have missed.
Presenter/Reporter Ena Miller Live item Producer: Emma Pearce Series Producer: Erin Riley
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| 0:38.0 | I'm Anna Miller. |
| 0:40.0 | This is a Women's Hour podcast pulling together |
| 0:42.0 | our recent series about pornography. |
| 0:44.7 | We're looking at how porn shapes our sex lives, relationships and self-image. |
| 0:49.5 | We talked to women, men, experts and a filmmaker. We also heard a lot from listeners and I'll feed some |
| 0:56.0 | of your comments and experiences in as we go. Back in February, women's hour spoke to Baroness |
| 1:01.9 | Gabby Burton. |
| 1:03.0 | She's leading the government's independent review into pornography. |
| 1:07.0 | You can hear that conversation with Emma Barnett on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:11.0 | The date was the 28th of February. That was the beginning of an honest and frank conversation |
| 1:16.9 | about porn. First, Joanna, not her real name, is in her 30s and believes that her partner's porn use shaped their sex life and |
| 1:26.1 | relationship in lots of ways. I asked her about the first time she encountered porn. |
| 1:31.5 | I think I was 14, I was in high school I'd walked home with a boy I |
| 1:36.3 | really fancied I was in his bedroom and we were looking for a Michael Jackson |
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