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I bitterly regret it
The lads’ mag I edited turned a generation on to porn – and now I’m a father I bitterly regret it: A remarkable confession from the longest-serving editor of Loaded
‘But such thoughts came home to roost five years later in 2009, when I finally grew up and became a father.
It had such an effect on me and changed my views so forcibly that within a year I’d quit a dream job that, for me, had become a moral nightmare.
When I look back now, I see we were severely pushing the envelope of what was considered decent.
We were normalising soft porn, and in so doing we must have made it more acceptable for young men to dive into the murky waters of harder stuff on the internet. And, for that, I have a haunting sense of regret……’
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