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Robin Abcarian: Tell your kids that Billie Eilish says porn destroyed her brain

After her turn as host of "Saturday Night Live" last week, the pop star Billie Eilish sat down with Howard Stern on Monday for a long, intense interview on his SiriusXM radio show. As always with Stern, talk turned to sex. And then to pornography. The ensuing conversation generated many headlines. Eilish, who turned 20 on Saturday, told Stern she began watching what she called "abusive ...

After her turn as host of "Saturday Night Live" last week, the pop star Billie Eilish sat down with Howard Stern on Monday for a long, intense interview on his SiriusXM radio show.

As always with Stern, talk turned to sex. And then to pornography.

The ensuing conversation generated many headlines.

Eilish, who turned 20 on Saturday, told Stern she began watching what she called "abusive pornography" when she was 11 years old. She eventually got to a point, she said, where she couldn't watch anything else.

"Unless it was violent, I didn't think it

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