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Are Pornographers Anti-Sex?

Melissa Raphael argues that if people are shocked by contemporary pornography, it is not because they are prudes but because, on the contrary, they actually enjoy sex.

Melissa Raphael argues that if people are shocked by contemporary pornography it's not because they are prudes but because, on the contrary, they actually enjoy sex. Pornography, she says, gets its thrill not from sex itself, which it finds monotonous, even disgusting, but from its own acts of transgression. Ironically, she argues, "while pornography has intensified its onslaught against sex, religious attitudes to sex have got ever more celebratory".

Producer: Sheila Cook.

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