Ex 'lads' mag' editor: I regret my part in normalising porn
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Martin Daubney, who edited Loaded magazine for eight years, said becoming a father and turning 40 radically changed the way he looked at things.
Now he is concerned about an ‘emotional time-bomb’ for the next generation of young men as children get desensitised by online access to pornographic images.
Change
Mr Daubney took over at Loaded in 2002. He said his magazine gave its readers exactly what they wanted but ‘the more we gave them, the more they demanded – and the racier we had to become in order to satiate their desires’.
He said that he became a ‘skilled defender of the indefensible’ as he took on critics of his publication.
But the former Loaded editor said his life ‘changed for ever’ when he became a father in 2009. ‘A month later,’ he added, ‘I turned 40. Almost overnight, my world view changed.’
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He commented: ‘I started seeing the women in my magazine not as sexual objects, but as somebody’s daughter.’
And Mr Daubney, who became a stay-at-home father ...
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