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Rabbi Boteach and Pam Anderson address Oxford about porn
The unlikely pair spoke to students after a month of campaigning against the 'public hazard ' of easy-to-access pornography
Boys’ fantasy figure Pamela Anderson lined up alongside a British-born rabbi and author of “Kosher Lust” at Oxford University this week, to talk about porn.
Rabbi Schmuley Boteach said: “It can be intimidating to talk about pornography and eroticism alongside an international sex symbol, but I think Pamela has handled it extremely well.”
The unlikely pair lectured students after a month of campaigning, in which they have warned against the ease of accessing online porn as “a public hazard of unprecedented seriousness,” which impacts on families and careers.
Anderson, who posed nude on the cover of Playboy earlier this year, has been a vocal supporter of Israel, through which she met Boteach. To many, she is known for the sex tape she made with her husband at the time, which made waves in 1995.
In a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece, the pair wrote that porn is “a boring wasteful and dead-end outlet for people too lazy to reap the ample rewards of healthy sexuality”.
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