Censoring adult entertainment does not reduce demand – it just allows fraudsters, blackmailers and corruption to flourish.
Tag: moralisers
Sob Story: The ASA’s Puritanical Fear Of The Female Body
The self-declared advertising authority uses modern buzzwords to disguise the decidedly Victorian morality behind its decisions.
Now Kissing Is Considered To Be Sexually Explicit: The Continuing Madness Of The ASA
Britain’s ever-prudish advertising censors get worked up about the idea of couples showing fully-clothed affection for each other.
The Golden Age Of Cosmopolitan Covers
The iconic covers from the glory days of the women’s guide to aspirational lifestyle and sexual liberation.
Printed Poison – Mid-Sixties Moral Panic From The Citizens For Decent Literature
More 1960s anti-smut hysteria from notorious fraudster Charles Keating.
Take Off Your Clothes And Live: A Naturist TV Commercial
A TV commercial that promotes the nudist lifestyle and brings up interesting questions about sexualisation and moralising.
Naked Fury: The Moral Panic Over Naked Attraction’s Cheeky Advertising
How a cheeky but harmless advertising campaign wound up the easily offended.
Roger Ebert And The Strange Cult Of The Film Critic
Mainstream film critics are the last people who we should be listening to about anything.
The Relentless Lies And Contrived Hysteria Over The Existential Threat Of Porn
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?
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.
Adult Entertainment’s Death By A Thousand Cuts
Mastercard imposes new rules on adult sites in order to crush them under the weight of administration.