Can fruit salads on set and buck’s fizz and salmon for breakfast accomplish up for gruelling 12-hour shoots?Can pornography be ethical? Now that’s a question you can’t acknowledge in half an hour. No one comes out on top in Nichi Hodgson’s debate,but it’s one worth having. Radio 4 has enjoyed a smattering of pornography this week, spearheaded by Hodgson’s documentary, and Can Porn Be Ethical? It’s refreshing to hear a programme about the sex industry that doesn’t involve groaning sound effects and a few “bow chicka wow wows”. But there’s no time for all that,as Hodgson has a variety of different opinions that need to be heard.
Hodgson sets out her stall early, declaring her old part-time job as a dominatrix and making it clear that this is a debate about ethics within the industry, or not whether pornography should exist. Should there be “tough and lickety-split rules” (no sniggering at the back) about how the industry is run?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com