Anne Robinson watches porn for the first time: 'He could really be pounding some pastry'

The 70-year-old presenter took part in an experiment to highlight the unrealistic expectations of sex gleaned by adolescents online

“As long as they’re not harming anyone,” Anne Robinson says to camera. “I like a world where there are as few things banned as possible.”

The 70-year-old presenter, famed for her steely no-nonsense persona on The Weakest Link and a respected journalist, has never watched porn in her life. Nor does she judge people that do.

But when she undertook a Guardian Comment Is Free experiment to give her opinion on whether she thought the unrealistic expectations of sex gleaned by impressionable adolescents was a problem unique to the internet age, she was surprisingly underwhelmed by the experience.

“There’s a woman with absolutely ginormous breasts, now this is coming up,” she says, typing the word “porn” into Google and clicking on the first search response. “Good heavens.”

“Hard Double Anal 3, good lord,” she says of a second clip. “What puzzles me, I suppose, is how people find that erotic, because it seems so crude and so far away from any fantasy about a loving sexual relationship.”

“Obviously, anyone who gets involved in porn has no pubic hair.”

Watching a third film, she’s asked whether she felt the actors looked as though they were enjoying themselves.

“Well, the one who’s rubbing the clitoris looks like he could really be pounding some pastry,” she responds.

“The most revealing part of this is how fake it seems, and it’s difficult for me to imagine that this would excite anyone.”

However, coming across a more sinister movie title called 18 Abused, and noting the youth of one of the actresses involved, it finally becomes too much.

“I actually don’t want to watch that anymore. I’m very shocked that somebody who looks very young and underage is on a site that is accessible by simply putting porn and it being on the first page.”

There are 68million searches for porn online, and over half of all internet users have watched porn at some point.

Instantly accessible, porn has become a major part of adolescent lives in the UK.

A recent survey for the Channel 4 programme Sex Education versus Pornography found 60 per cent of 14 to 17 year olds agreed that “pornography might give boys or girls false ideas about sex”.

Meanwhile, three in 10 said they learn about sex from porn.