My view of pornography: former UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith on her personal experience
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 02/03/2011 22:24
Eyeing my fellow passengers on the Tube heading for the Erotica show at Olympia last November, I wondered just what I was letting myself in for. BBC Radio 5 Live had asked me to make a documentary about the UK porn industry, so where better to start than its trade fair?
Two years ago, I became associated in the public mind with pornography when I mistakenly claimed parliamentary expenses for two pay-per-view porn films [watched by Smith's husband Richard] on a broadband bill.
It was just as wrong that the bill included a payment to watch the cartoon Surf's Up, but it was the porn that grabbed public and press attention. I realised how fascinated we are by porn - but that many of us know very little about it - how it's made, who watches it and how it affects us all.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/jacqui-smith-my-view-of-pornography-2229430.html
