The Ten-Day Debate at The Economist, with Dr. Robert Jensen
The Economist magazine sponsored an online debate on the question "Can porn be good for us?" Dr. Robert Jensen argued against pornography and Cindy Gallop argued for, with guest commentaries. At the end of the 10-day debate, readers voted 81% against pornography.
(For those not familiar with Dr. Jensen, he is a long-time mentor of mine whom I had the pleasure of interviewing four years ago on the topic of pornography and again in March of this year- see Related Content, below this blog post).
In the ten-day debate over at The Economist last week, the always-brilliant and outspoken Jensen gave these as his opening remarks: