Welcome to Terms of Service, a new Pornhub Podcast. This is a show where I, Asa Akira, a porn star, along with my boss

Alex Guchese, the VP of Branda Community at Pornhub, talk with people from

various industries and points of view regarding matters of censorship,

deplatforming, free speech, and the most interesting thing in the world, sex.

Today we're speaking with Lynn Camela, professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Department Chair of Interdisciplinary

Gender and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Her research looks at the adult industry from a cultural and economic perspective

and has been featured nationally and internationally in the New York Times, Washington Post,

the Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Playboy, among other outlets.

Recently, she's been working on a new project as a research fellow with the University of

California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.

I think if we kind of take a step back and kind of, you know, go wide angle and take like a kind of long look back, we will see that pornography throughout history

has always been positioned as a problem in need of a solution.

So what that solution looks like has been different at different moments in time. So whether the solution is to

eradicate pornography, whether the solution is to try to contain

pornography, or some combination of both.

I'm wondering like has the reason for pornography

being quote unquote bad at different moments of history always consistently have the reasons

been different or have they always been like this one long-standing reason of like

X YZ long-standing reason of like X, Y, Z.

You know, I mean, I think it's always been a number of different factors, right? That there's, you know, the religious and the moral peace, right?

You know, pornography and smut is immoral.

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