We would never take people seriously if they suggested that the whole of any industry or culture was represented solely by its worst elements. So why do we accept such blanket criticisms of adult entertainment?
Tag: Moral panic
The God Movie Makers: Exploring The Delirious World Of Jeremiah Films
The paranoid and conspiracy-driven films of America’s biggest fundamentalist production company.
GB News And The Outrage Publicists
If something upsets and offends you, perhaps it isn’t the smartest idea in the world to keep on promoting it through angry tweets.
OFCOM’s Online Nation: Reinventing Harm
The latest OFCOM report attempts to hype the dangers of unfettered thought online, but can’t hide the fact that viewing porn is now increasingly the norm.
The Moralist-Bating World Of Lingerie Advertising
How ads for female underwear attempt to emphasise the sexiness while trying to appease the censors.
Online Harms And Offline Intimidation
Scaring people into compliance and controlling the public discussion with vaguely worded laws and campaigns of moral panic.
The BBFC’s Lust For Power Has No Limits
The latest self-serving study by the BBFC is another exercise in manipulation and nudge-policy towards having everything we see under their control.
The Video Nasties Documentaries
A selection of predictably hysterical and ill-informed British TV documentaries and discussion shows from the height of the Video Nasty moral panic.
Academic Click ‘Bate: The War On Porn Continues
The latest academic anti-porn study is full of holes, misinformation, scaremongering and supposition – don’t be fooled.
Satanic Panic Stations – Lil Nas X Stokes The Fires Of Hysteria
A humorously profane music video and a pair of shoes spark mass panic amongst the religious right.
The Deadly Results Of Sex Shaming And Guilt Transferrence
Why are we surprised that years of demonising the sex industry and pushing ‘sex addiction’ as a problem that is caused by outside forces is resulting in violence, abuse and discrimination?
The Happy Whore
Reducing all sex workers to homogenous groups of victims to satisfy society’s desire to see them as such is insulting and misguided; everyone is an individual.