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Philip Larkin and how internet porn began in 1963 (sort of) | Samira Ahmed: Journalist, Broadcaster, Writer

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1963 was a remarkable year. Among the glut of cultural and historical anniversaries — Dr Who, the assassination of JFK, Billy Liar and Oh What Lovely War! — we should I reckon be marking 50 years since the invention of sex, as per the Philip Larkin poem: Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) – Between the end of the “Chatterley” ban And the Beatles’ first LP. The second verse holds the key word – Shame: Up to then there’d only been A sort of bargaining, A wrangle for the ring, A shame that started at sixteen And spread to everything. It’s easy to forget the depth of shame that covered every aspect of young people’s sexual lives till then. Novelist, Fay Weldon recently told me on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour programme how her generation was weighed down by terrifying ignorance and shame of their own bodies and sexuality: “We didn’t even have the vocabulary to explain or understand our bodies. We were so ignorant.” The Pill and the busting of 50s attit

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