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from www.cambridge-news.co.uk – Teacher turned porn actor Johnny Anglais will team up with Britain’s first female porn director, Anna Span to propose the motion “This house believes that pornography does a good public service”.

They will lock horns with Shelley Lubben, a former porn star who became a chaplain and now campaigns against the porn industry at the Cambridge Union on Thursday, February 17.

A debate on pornography might look like a departure from the serious academic debates usually held in the Union’s historic chamber, but Lauren Davidson, President of the Cambridge Union, said pornography was an important issue.

She said: “This term is not about dumbing down at all: we’ve got two doctors flying in for this debate – it’s a very serious topic. The Union has a reputation for doing things in the past for the sake of controversy, but that’s not what we’re doing here. Plus we’ve got many more exciting speakers including Ian McKellen, Bill Nighy and James Watson, who won a Nobel Prize.”

Sarah Peters-Harrison, Women’s Officer for Cambridge University Students’ Union, said she supported a debate on pornography.

She said: “Whether porn is a casual narcotic or something stronger is up for discussion, but I think it needs to be discussed. This is something we don’t talk about enough.”

This isn’t the first time the Union Society has courted controversy. In November last year the 200-year-old society came under fire after an ill-tempered debate on the motion “This House believes Islam is a threat to the West.” And in April it was criticised for offering pole-dancing lessons.

But this term’s porn debate boasts one of the Union’s most colourful line-ups in recent memory. Johnny Anglais, real name Benedict Garrett, was forced to quit his job as a teacher after pupils discovered his secret life as a stripper and porn actor.

Feminist Anna Span, 38, director of titles like Hug a Hoodie and Do the Business, aims to entertain women as well as men. She also stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal Democrat candidate in the 2010 general election.

The third speaker proposing the motion is Jessi Fischer, an American writer who calls herself ‘the Sexademic’.

On the other side of the debate is former porn star Shelley Lubben, 42, who was abused as a child and also worked as a prostitute. She appeared in 30 hardcore movies before leaving the porn industry and becoming a born-again Christian. She said she plans to tell the “hardcore truth” in the debate.

She said: “Porn is not glamorous. It destroys lives, is an industry of human trafficking and rampant sexually transmitted diseases that is destroying our nations and families of the world. Porn is a huge lie and I intend to expose it.”

She is joined by child psychologist Richard Woolfson, who has argued that porn damages young people, and feminist sociologist Dr Gail Dines.

John Lacy, a student at Downing College, Cambridge, said he thought the debate was a “great idea”.

He said: “The Union debates can be so boring so this porn debate is like a breath of fresh air. I’ll definitely be attending.”

Other speakers at the Union this term include actor Sir Ian McKellen, who will be talking about homosexuality, and Miss World Alexandria Mills.

Controversial scientist James Watson, who won a Nobel Prize in 1962 for his part in the discovery of DNA, will also be speaking. Dr Watson hit the headlines for the wrong reasons in 2007 when he suggested that black people were genetically less intelligent than white people.

Ms Davidson said she was looking forward to hosting such a broad spectrum of speakers.

She said: “The Union always has a top line-up for foreign policy and politics debates, but we wanted to revamp things a bit and appeal to a wider audience – not only students but the wider public.”

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