Women watch porn too - so why can’t we talk about it?
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The Times
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A quarter of people watching pornography are women, but why do we find it hard to comprehend? We speak to the author of a new book who has interviewed one hundred women about their porn habits - what can we learn about women’s pleasure?
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Guest: Dr Fiona Vera-Gray, deputy director at the Child and Women’s Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University, and author of Women on Porn: One hundred stories. One vital conversation.
Host: Jane Mulkerrins.
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| 1:30.0 | Before we start a warning this episode contains detailed discussions about sex and pornography. For millions of us, porn has become a regular part of our daily lives and Brits are beating most of the world |
| 1:55.1 | when it comes to how much we consume. One in five of the nearly 14 million people who |
| 2:01.2 | watch porn online in the UK are doing so during the working day. |
| 2:05.5 | That's according to Ofcom. |
| 2:07.4 | And the UK is second in the world for the number of searches for porn only beaten by the US. Less well known is that a quarter of |
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