Says Who?

79% of young people in the UK had seen violent pornography before they turned 18. The average age a child first sees porn is 13. For a generation, this has become sex education.

Professor Clare McGlynn has spent more than 20 years researching pornography, sexual violence and online abuse, and her work has helped change UK law. Her new book, Exposed, investigates the rise of extreme pornography and what it is doing to how we understand sex.

In this conversation with Brogan Garrit-Smith she makes her case: that the porn on the biggest free sites is sexually violent, misogynistic and racist, and has got far worse; that young people now think rough sex and strangulation are simply what sex is; that one in four women are fearful during sex; that we blame women like Bonnie Blue while never asking about the men watching and paying; that deepfakes have put every woman and girl at risk; that police still tell victims "the AI did it"; and that because all of this was built, it can be changed.

We have been told porn is just entertainment.

Says Who?

She explains:

1. Why she says mainstream porn is sexually violent, misogynistic and racist
2. How porn is shaping what a generation thinks sex should be
3. Why a generation with unlimited access to sex is lonelier and less satisfied
4. What Bonnie Blue's pregnancy content says about all of us
5. Why deepfakes are the latest form of sexual abuse, and what the law can do
6. Why she believes it can still change
7. And a bonus: the laws Clare would pass tomorrow if she could.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Trailer
0:49 The numbers, and the premise
2:46 What porn became, and why she wrote the book
4:09 "Have I been living under a rock?"
5:15 The genre that shocked her
7:11 From Britney to the school uniform
8:31 Bonnie Blue
10:49 Nobody asks about the men
11:49 Nothing is sacred
13:52 The search engines nobody blames
14:55 Is your desire even yours?
17:29 Lonelier, and less satisfied
20:05 Grok: 3 million sexual images in 11 days
22:20 Non-consent is the point
24:14 What the law says vs. what the police do
25:20 If the images are real
26:48 The phone in the repair shop
29:36 It takes a princess
30:42 "The gun didn't do it"
32:29 Adam Raine, 16
35:18 Raising a son in this
37:45 Emily's case
39:16 The boiling frog
40:04 The laws she would pass
42:19 Why she calls porn racist
43:16 Empowerment, repackaged
44:57 It can change
48:33 See it, pay for it, ask what it's doing to you
50:04 Brogan alone

Exposed by Clare McGlynn: https://www.waterstones.com/book/exposed/clare-mcglynn/9781836431718

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Barry Hearn OBE built Matchroom from a £100 company into a global sports empire worth well over £1 billion. He is the son of a bus driver from an Essex council estate, a chartered accountant by training, and a promoter for more than 50 years across snooker, darts, boxing and pool. His son has left for Monaco. Barry is staying.In this conversation with Brogan Garrit-Smith he makes his case: that Britain is governed by the politics of envy, and the people who build things are being treated as easy targets; that the millionaires who have already left are not coming back, and nobody is replacing them; that a working-class saver can now face up to 67% tax on a pension and another 40% when they die; that Great Britain Limited is borrowing too much and failing at the very top; that he nearly lost everything before Sky TV arrived like the cavalry; that he missed his son's birth to win £50 at snooker; and that the only thing he really fears is his wife.We have been told Britain is still a place where anyone can build something.Says Who?He explains:1. Why he says Britain runs on the politics of envy, and what it is doing to the next generation2. Why he says the people who have left will not be coming back3. What he says a Martian would make of the British tax system4. What a £50 snooker game taught him about the price of winning5. Why he says money buys you the freedom to tell the truth6. Why, with every reason to leave, he is stayingAnd a bonus: Barry predicts Joshua vs Fury, and the round he thinks it ends!0:00 Trailer/Intro1:01 The numbers will frighten you2:02 The world of politics of envy3:00 Dumbing down society4:11 They won't be coming back5:24 My wife's got a dog7:02 A £100 company8:44 Not leaving the office until I've sent an invoice11:13 Bad news is not to be shared13:00 I missed Eddie's birth for £5013:33 Unbeatable, but you've got to kill me15:20 Are you a billionaire, Barry?16:44 Your candle will burn longer19:31 Explaining British tax to a Martian21:37 Great Britain Limited23:04 A dirty grey wall that says The End23:25 The first time I voted Reform23:54 You wouldn't appoint her, even on Mars26:13 Retired for six weeks30:16 Sky came over the hill like the cavalry31:08 We nearly doubled the business in COVID32:02 Boxing in the back garden34:11 Elocution lessons and Bertolt Brecht36:18 I hit him very hard and he didn't go down37:27 When the man upstairs is ready, I'm ready40:19 Telling the truth is a luxury45:15 Joshua vs Fury46:17 I don't draw any money, I buy farms50:47 Three heart attacks52:01 Is it harder to build in Britain?57:09 Born in England, I'll die in England57:32 What I took away from BarrySays Who? with Brogan Garrit-Smith. New episodes weekly.Listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/says-who/id1713423794Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@sayswhothepodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/brogan.garritsmith

We have replaced God with Google, spirituality with self help, and prayer with scrolling, and we call it progress. Gen Z now spends 7 hours and 43 minutes a day looking at a screen. That is 122 days a year, gone, and the self improvement industry those same people turn to for an answer is worth 46 billion dollars.
Danny Morel built a career in business before walking away from the idea that success alone was enough. He is an author and a spiritual teacher, and the voice behind The Higher Self, and he spends his year between the Dominican Republic and Austin.
In this conversation with Brogan Garritt-Smith he makes his case: that personal development has become a way of outsourcing your own power, so the guru is always going to let you down and the answer was never in the book or at the event; that feeling stuck in life is not a sign you need another course, it is the predictable result of looking outside yourself for twelve years; that the midlife crisis is not a breakdown but a spiritual awakening arriving late; that the disconnection is by design, because the people selling you the cure are the ones who need you searching; that you can go through anger and let it go in ninety seconds rather than carry it for a lifetime, and most people carry it for a lifetime because nobody ever told them; that your self worth was set by how much love you received, not by what you earn, and that whatever anyone calls self love starts there; that the work the inner child needs cannot be done in your head, which is where everyone tries to do it; and that British children now spend more time indoors than inmates do in prison.
Brogan says she has been doing this dance of self development for twelve years, and what she thinks it actually takes.
We are being told that the way out is one more book, one more ice bath, one more guru.
Says Who?
He explains:
Why the guru is always going to let you down, and what outsourcing your power costs you
Why you feel stuck in life after years of personal development, and what the stuckness is actually telling you
Why a midlife crisis is a spiritual awakening nobody prepared you for
How to let go of anger in ninety seconds, and why almost nobody is ever taught it
Where self worth is set, and why no amount of money moves it
What inner child healing needs that no course can give you, and where people look instead
How to find your purpose when you have spent a decade asking an algorithm
What screen time is doing to a generation, and the number nobody adds up
Chapters:
0:00 Living In Fear As A Society
0:58 We Replaced God With Google And Spirituality With Self Help
1:56 Why Your Phone Keeps You Spiritually Disconnected
6:23 The Cost Of City Life, And Feeling Stuck In It
10:44 The Midlife Crisis As A Late Spiritual Awakening
13:13 Money Is Energy, And It Mirrors Your Self Worth
20:02 Self Love, And Where Your Self Worth Was Really Set
23:14 How To Let Go Of Anger In 90 Seconds
29:18 The 46 Billion Dollar Self Development Industry
33:18 Find Your Purpose, With No Destination To Arrive At
37:07 Fear Is Love, Distorted
40:58 Phones, Partners, And Switching Off The News
44:00 Inner Child Healing Is A Process, Not A Fix
45:03 Parenting Tips For Protecting A Child From Your Wounds
46:34 Screen Time, And Children Indoors More Than Inmates
51:42 Define Success And Happiness For Yourself
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2.5 million Brits are on weight loss drugs and another 3.3 million are waiting to start. In America it is more than 30 million people, and children as young as 12 are being prescribed them.
Dr Courtney Raspin is an eating disorder specialist and psychologist, and co-author of The Weight Loss Prescription alongside Dr Max Pemberton. She has spent her career helping people understand their relationship with their bodies, weight and food, which makes her the person to ask what happens when a drug designed for one group of patients reaches everybody else.
In this conversation with Brogan Garritt-Smith she makes her case: that these drugs are a tool, powerful for the patient who genuinely needs them and dangerous for the one who does not; that most people come off them and put the weight back on four times faster than if they had lost it any other way; that what you lose along the way is muscle, which matters most for the people who can least afford to lose it; that the food industry and the pharmaceutical industry are paid twice over, once for making us unwell and once for the cure; that the drug dims hunger and dims everything else with it, the gym, alcohol, desire, the whole appetite for living; and that nobody is born hating their body, which means somebody taught us.
Brogan tells her own story in this one. She says that if these drugs had existed when she was younger she would have grabbed them with both hands, and what it took instead to get out.
We are being told that weight loss drugs are the safest and most effective way to lose weight.
Says Who?
She explains:
Why the weight comes back four times faster, and what that does to a body that has already been through it
What you are losing that is not fat, and why it hits the older population hardest
Who is actually making the money, and which part of the problem pays nobody
What she sees happening to girls who are 12, and what she says is being taken from them
Why the dimming reaches alcohol, exercise and desire as well as food
What a healthy relationship with food looks like in practice, and where it starts
0:00 The cold open
1:30 Here's the question, Dr Raspin
2:38 You'll gain it back four times faster
4:17 Easier to sell a solution in a syringe
9:29 Nobody is born hating their body
11:29 The lesser of two evils, until it isn't
13:16 You upload a picture and the pen arrives
18:02 Children as young as twelve
21:09 The lights go dim on everything
24:18 The three phases, and the one nobody does
28:27 A real life experiment on the public, in real time
31:04 The pills are coming
33:34 Who benefits, and where there is no money
34:25 How you rebuild a relationship with food
36:39 My son made me heal my relationship with food
42:09 So let's settle it
44:08 After
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Nobody would put their name to the word safe.
Dr Becky Foljambe is a GP. She gave evidence to a parliamentary committee in March on screens in classrooms, and she arrived at this conversation having spent the year asking one question that nobody has answered: where is the proof that iPads in schools are safe for the children sitting in front of them?
When Brogan's team went looking for the person who said it was, they could not find one. No name, no company, no face. The claim is everywhere and it belongs to nobody.
In this conversation with Brogan Garritt-Smith she makes her case: that Covid was a grotesque experiment in what happens to children's learning and their wellbeing when they sit inside on screens all day; that there is no evidence of safety and no evidence of efficacy over traditional teaching, and that the academic work points the other way; that devices are now handed out as readily as a water cup in a classroom; that two million children in this country need speech and language input and the therapists on her team have seen caseloads rise 27% in two years; that the average age of first access to porn is 13 and most children never went looking for it, it was fed to them; that A&E consultants are seeing fewer broken arms and more self-harm, acute distress and psychosis, and nobody is asking those children about their screens. And that she has already heard enough, in her own seat, as a doctor.
Then Brogan says something she has not said on this channel before, about the child she was.
We are told screens are helping our children learn better.
Says Who?
She explains:
What a doctor sees in the surgery that does not show up in any study
Why she says there is no evidence of safety, and what the evidence there is actually shows
What screens appear to be doing to children's bodies, their minds and their words
Why ADHD symptoms may be reversible in children whose lives have been blighted by them
What happened when Brogan's team tried to find the person who said this was safe
0:00 The cold open
0:56 Screens make our children learn better. Says who?
2:40 What is actually happening inside the classroom
6:59 Covid was a grotesque experiment
12:31 The head in Kent who banned the phones
26:51 A babysitter, an educator, a pacifier
33:08 Retinol on a four year old
33:51 Nobody on the beach actually looks like that
35:51 One in five have had a relationship with a chatbot
38:53 Five hours a day, and the risk climbs
40:58 Most of them did not even go looking for it
42:09 I was one of those vulnerable children
46:06 Take the screens away, then reassess
47:54 ADHD, and the children we think need the devices more
51:32 Is there a sweet spot for screen time?
53:30 In the Night Garden took seven years to make
54:50 Two million children waiting for speech and language
56:49 We don't have any evidence of safety
1:00:11 Settle it then, Dr Becky
1:00:53 They are tools, they are not an oracle
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Dr Becky Foljambe on iPads in schools and screens in classrooms, screen time and ADHD, does social media cause ADHD, screen time for toddlers, and teenage mental health.