from www.cambridgefirst.co.uk – A CAMBRIDGE University society will host a debate involving a former porn star.

The Cambridge Union Society, which has hosted some of the world’s most eminent speakers including Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagon, and Clint Eastwood, will entertain former-porn actress Shelley Lubben [pictured], who gave up her porn career and founded the Pink Cross Foundation – an anti-pornography charity.

On the same bill as Lubben will be Dr Richard Woolfson, a child psychologist, porn-star Johnny Anglais and the UK’s first female adult movie director, Anna Span.

The society will debate the motion “This house believes that pornography does a good public service”.

Lubben became a born-again Christian before revealing the dark side of the industry in her book, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth.

Union president Lauren Davidson said the debate, which was revealed by Cambridge University student newspaper The Tab, had received a lot of positive feedback.

“We always offer a traditional line-up of foreign policy and political debates, but we wanted to look at the issues that affect today’s society,” she said.

“We wanted the debates to be interesting and exciting.”

Ms Davidson, who will be president for the Lent term, shook off any criticism that could be aimed at the choose of topic.

“There’s always going to be comments from the people who would be negative whatever you put in front of them but the responses we have had so far have been very positive,” she said.

Joshi Eichner Herrmann, who wrote the story for The Tab, said: “I think the Union should be applauded for taking on an issue like pornography.

“It’s easy to have debates about justice and politics but it takes a bit of courage to raise a controversial subject like this. That is what the Union is there to do.”

As well as the pornography debate this term the union will host Sir Ian McKellen and supermodel Caprice.