Pornography

Pornography (often abbreviated porn) is the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal. Pornography may be presented in a variety of media, including books, magazines, postcards, photographs, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, phone calls, writing, film, video, and video games. The term applies to the depiction of the act rather than the act itself, and so does not include live exhibitions like sex shows and striptease. The primary subjects of present-day pornographic depictions are pornographic models, who pose for still photographs, and pornographic actors or porn stars, who perform in pornographic films. If dramatic skills are not involved, a performer in a porn film may also be called a model.

Links To Peel
In an article published in February 1989 by Offbeat Magazine, Peel was asked what his views of pornography:

"'I have genuinely never seen any hard pornography and don't want to. Someone used to send me a magazine called Whitehouse a couple of years back. It was like a butcher's shop window, or some medical journal and I found it not the least bit attractive. I tend to personalise things and think, how would I feel if my daughter had to make a living doing things like that?'"

His opinion on page 3 girls: "'In some ways, I think things like page three are worse, because there is a sort of phony moralising that goes with it which is very distasteful. I once had to review a film with Samantha Fox and I got the impression if she hadn't shown everyone her tits she would have been hard pressed to get a job on the checkout at Tesco's.'"