Hello Jaz,

I am so glad you picked up on my strange attitude towards pornography. It all sounds so simple to me, but nowhere can I find anyone who agrees! I have searched the Internet, contacted several feminist sites, written to three UK government ministries, visited the three leading family organisations in London, contacted my local MP, one other MP, the House of Commons, the leading author on the subject in the US ... all to no avail.

The fundamental problem is that women do not want any restrictions placed on their freedom to display sexually, in whatever way they please -- the ladies in Toronto have recently established their right to go topless down the main street! -- and so the so-called anti-porn feminists organisations are really a sham. They have no intention of using force, and so allow the anti-censorship feminists like Nadine Strossen and Camille Paglia to have their wicked way. The real clue is the fact that this is the one major feminist campaign that has failed. Think about it.

Number one, pornography exploits men to the tune of $2 billion every year; number two, it cripples them, so that they are unable to discipline those around them, sometimes for days afterwards -- particularly the girls. It is a grotesque descending spiral: the more flesh you see, the less able you are to get the girls to cover it up! We have no natural defences, because the Internet allows private consumption of a public display -- meaning one woman can seduce many men. Each porn actress in California’s San Fernando Valley now controls roughly 40,000 men to masturbate to orgasm every night! What power.

The only solution is regulation on a global scale, but it is men who will have to do it -- you cannot expect women to put limits on their own freedom -- and here in lies the problem. Even the rather modest idea of an individual man controlling an individual woman has become rather unfashionable these days -- a bride no longer promises to obey -- so the idea of men clubbing together to restrict women’s freedom on a grander scale sounds utterly absurd. In fact men clubbing together for pretty much anything, other than sport, is virtually illegal, since women will break it up, claiming equal rights.

Do you get the measure of the problem? As a consequence I see no clear way forward, and would very much appreciate any suggestions you might make.