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Woman's Hour

The Woman's Hour Debate: Can Porn Empower Women?

Duration: 38 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Can porn empower women? Can it liberate, celebrate or enhance or does it enslave, debase or corrupt? Jane Garvey hosts a debate at the Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre in London. Guests include artist, activist and erotic emporium founder Sam Roddick; feminist porn performer and producer Pandora Blake; Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans, who researches and writes about pornography at the University of Leicester and is a founder member of Resist Porn Culture; and Clarissa Smith, Professor of Sexual Cultures at Sunderland University and a member of Onscenity .

Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Claire Bartleet. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Sam Roddick
Interviewed Guest:
Pandora Blake
Interviewed Guest:
Heather Brunskell-Evans
Interviewed Guest:
Clarissa Smith

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