Porn

This week we take a look at porn. Everyone watches it, more and more of us even make it, but how should we feel about porn? Is porn a degrading poison that pushes us towards dehumanisation and deviance, or a harmless and even necessary catharsis? We discuss our own history watching porn, how it changed as first the web and then the 'tube sites' made access to porn ubiquitous. Gareth talks about his time writing for Ireland's only porn magazine 'Blue Ireland'. We take a look at the laws and moral panics surrounding porn. From revenge porn to the 'Traffickinghub' campaign organised by far right anti-gay, anti-abortion, group Exodus Cry, to Ireland's Turn off the Red Light Campaign organised by Ruhama, a charity run by two of the sisterhoods that ran the Magdalene Laundries.