DISCUSSION

As much as we might hate the series, the Fifty Shades books and films have well and truly brought BDSM into the spotlight. While bored housewives around the world are thrilled to be reading about Christian Grey’s antics in the red room with Anastasia, the rest of us are horrified at the things we see described on the pages, and we can’t wait to put them down.

When it comes to sex work, pretty much everyone and their mother has an opinion about it. They think that they know the best way to stop it and the best way to help those in it get out. In fact, they think that they know so much about it that it is shocking the sex industry even exists!

We’ve all got fantasies about fucking the office hottie, of dragging them into the storage cupboard and fucking them against the cabinet, or of sneaking into their office when everyone has gone home and having our wicked way with them on the table.

There are so many people out there who hate the fact that there are some earning their living by selling sex, and because they find the idea of sex work as real work, they want to get rid of it completely.

It seems that barely a week goes by without a “new scientific study into sex” making the headlines, telling us things that we, most likely, already know about sex. Is it too much, and do we actually care about sex research?

Every few months, someone in the media will start to talk about porn addiction and how it is a myth. They suggest that it doesn’t exist, and it is just an excuse that men and women use to justify their excessive porn watching. Except now a study suggests that might actually be true.

Sometimes there is nothing quite as thrilling and exciting as sending a naughty nude pic to your partner to tease them and make them want to fuck you.

If you ask the average person on the street how porn can change you, they will tell you the same old story that we always here: “porn gives you unrealistic expectations of sex” and that “porn corrupts”.

Generally the future of porn promises to be pretty exciting. We’ve gone from kinky phone sex 40 or so years ago to all the magnificent pornographic wonders of today – and that’s just great. But there are still some people out there trying to ruin everybody’s good time.

For many men, talk of women paying for sex is like sweet, succulent poetry to their ears. It heralds a new age where the ever-present desire for sex is no longer exclusive to the male gender, and perhaps English nightclubs will cease to be the sausage-fest spheres of reciprocated frustration and sadness that they have become.