2 OCTOBER 1982, Page 18

Forum on porn

Sir: A good Harley Street psychiatrist costs only £30 per hour and even at the meagre rate of remuneration reportedly available to Spectator contributors this should not be beyond Mr Richard West if he would really like to come to terms with his pornography problem (25 September).

No quantity of assertion that porno- graphy causes the 'rape of small girls, incest and sadism' will ever turn into evidence and if Dick West believes the cock and ball story of Linda Lovelace being a victim of celluloid white slavery he is as gullible as the Guardian who fell for it originally (26 March 1981).

Phillip Hodson

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