Study: Call for ‘national conversation on porn’ resulted in irrational debate

A call for a “national conversation on porn” resulted in an irrational debate fuelled by sensationalist and negative media coverage. The claim is made in a new study on current attitudes and media commentary around pornography.

Carried out by researchers at Dublin City University’s (DCU) School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, the study found the 2016 call by then taoiseach Enda Kenny for a national debate was met with commentary that was far from “calm and rational”.