In the days before legalised porn, the restrictive laws in Britain proved to be a huckster’s paradise, with scams, cons and rip-offs the order of the day.

In the days before legalised porn, the restrictive laws in Britain proved to be a huckster’s paradise, with scams, cons and rip-offs the order of the day.
A personal memoir of falling foul of Manchester’s over-zealous Obscene Publications Squad – and fighting back.
Two high-profile British trials in 2012 attempted to draw a line in the sand over what was acceptable sexual behaviour between consensual adults.
A selection of predictably hysterical and ill-informed British TV documentaries and discussion shows from the height of the Video Nasty moral panic.
Provocative documentaries about forbidden culture, from the days when Channel 4 was still a credible and daring broadcaster.
The class war raging behind every call for ‘something to be done’ about the dubious pleasures of the great unwashed.