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Warning: This article discusses sexual content We don’t like talking about it – but we are certainly watching it. “Please can someone do something to rein in the current Woman’s Hour preoccupation with masturbation and pornography,” scolded a Radio 4 listener in the UK last week, referring to the show’s recent porn series. Speaking to the station’s Feedback show, another called in to say that she and her husband found it “unacceptable”, before adding: “By the way, neither of us are prudish or anti-sex.
” Well, to those listeners, if you are reading – avert your gaze! You’re not going to enjoy this article, either. We may not like talking about porn, but we are certainly watching it. One in five of us partakes during the working day, from hybrid workers on slow Monday afternoons to parliamentarians.
