Pamela Anderson branded a ‘hypocrite’ by This Morning viewers after calling for porn boycott

The Baywatch star is encouraging men to reignite their connection with their partner
Emma Powell16 October 2016
The Weekender

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This Morning viewers branded Pamela Anderson a hypocrite for telling men to boycott porn and reignite their connection with their partner.

Anderson, 49 – who is famous for posing nude in Playboy and playing C J Parker on Baywatch – was on the show to encourage a sensual revolution.

The actress and model has teamed up with US rabbi Shmuel "Shmuley" Boteach to launch an awareness campaign that blames porn for marriage breakdown and young men becoming desensitised to love and sex.

Speaking to Eammon Holmes and Ruth Langsford she said: “The sexual revolution was a great thing and it gave us freedom but it also gave us really bad sex. I think we need a sensual revolution.

“When a woman is in bed and the husband is in the bathroom with a computer there is something going on. That’s not normal.

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“An intimate relationship is such better sex. Pornography diminishes desire.”

The former Baywatch star said she does not want a ban on pornography, but wants people to work on “intimate” relationships.

Viewers hit out at her comments and accused her of hypocrisy.

Anderson preempted the criticism, but claimed she never viewed Playboy as pornographic.

“In the age of technology I think people are becoming desensitised," she said. "I have two teenage boys and it’s worrisome.

“I know I’m part of the problem and I should probably disqualify myself from this because I was in Playboy and I had a tape stolen from my home and exploited all over the world, but I didn’t think Playboy was pornographic."

Anderson said she doesn’t regret her days at Playboy, but said she mistook the attention she received to be an outpouring of love.

“I don’t regret my playboy days it was free and sexy I’ve always been so romantic and only wanted sex in a relationship,” she said. “It was an objectification of women on my terms. I liked being sexy. I think I took that attention for love.”

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