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Is Pornography Just Harmless Fun?Wednesday 29 October 2003
No longer confined to the top shelf, pornography's increasingly found its way into the mainstream.

Lad mags, porn on the internet and now what seems to be a wave of TV documentaries examining the sex industry.
So is pornography harmless fun, a way of showing how grown up we are about sex? Or are we in denial about the real damage porn can cause to its users and participants?
The feminist and writer Yvonne Roberts and Simon Ford, the producer of the BBC's Sex Empires series join Sheila to discuss these issues.
Tell us your views
Sex Empires is on BBC2 on Sunday 2 November at 9 pm

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