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Dec 2013

1h 28m

Pornography is Good For Us: Without it W...

Intelligence Squared

About this episode

Hooray for porn! What would we be without it? Bored, repressed, frustrated. Porn allows the timid to indulge fantasies they’d never live out in real life and the adventurous to experiment with new forms of pleasure. Now that it has stepped down from the top shelf and waltzed across the internet we can all enjoy it. All we need to do is stop pretending it’s s ... Show More

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