We should all be concerned about stories of religiously-driven campaigns against classical art.

We should all be concerned about stories of religiously-driven campaigns against classical art.
It’s time to start pointing out that the moralising extremists who see all sexual expression and any nudity as evil are extremists who do not speak for the majority of society.
The official line is that naturism and nudism have nothing to do with sex or exhibitionism. A nude beach regular begs to differ.
Once again, Britain’s self-appointed advertising censors are allowing a handful of tutting moralists to dictate what everyone else can see.
A visual guide to forbidden advertising from the modern age.
Selectively blocking individual Twitter feeds in specific countries will not placate the censorial and feels like the thin end of the wedge.
A vintage documentary look at the nudist lifestyle that is both enthusiastic and salacious.
1994 saw British television advertising step forward into the brave new world of European openness – and then quickly step back again.
A TV commercial that promotes the nudist lifestyle and brings up interesting questions about sexualisation and moralising.
How a cheeky but harmless advertising campaign wound up the easily offended.
How one of the biggest glamour models of the 1980s became an acclaimed author of ultra-violent crime fiction.
The problems in adapting a complex story for the screen laid bare in John Irvin’s messy, compromised version of Peter Straub’s magnificent novel.