In this podcast Dr Lucy Neville of University of Leicester talks with me about sexual desire and pornography
Lucy is a Lecturer in Criminology with an interest in understanding women’s engagement with sex, sex work, and pornography. Her PhD thesis in Forensic Psychology involved investigating violence perpetuated against sex workers by both clients and intimate partners across seven metropolitan areas from 1980-2006, and since then she has worked on a number of projects focused around women involved in sex work.
Prior to working in academia she worked for several years at BBC Media Action, the BBC’s international development charity where she worked on projects as diverse as HIV/AIDs awareness in Cambodia, learning English as a second language in Bangladesh, gender-based violence in refugee camps in South Sudan, and a large-scale piece of research investigating the public perception of climate change across Africa.
In this episode we discuss some of the key ideas explored in Lucy’s fantastic book, Girls Who like Boys Who Like Boys. The book unpicks what it might be that some women enjoy about consuming, and in some cases producing, gay male pornography.
Not surprisingly then, we discuss some explicit topics and use some explicit language during this conversation, so if you are easily offended, this may not be the podcast episode for you. Then again, maybe you’ll learn something!
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Music is by kind permission of The Shannon Reilly Trio. The full version of the song Trouble can be found along with its video here, and purchased on the Shannon Reilly Trio album also called Trouble.
The podcast was produced thanks to the post-production expertise of John Ashbrook of Radio Pictures.
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