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The Very British Sex Scams Of The 1980s

April 10, 2023 reprobatepress

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.

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Police Raids In The Last Days Of Obscenity

January 30, 2022 reprobatepress

A personal memoir of falling foul of Manchester’s over-zealous Obscene Publications Squad – and fighting back.

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The Obscenity Trials Of The Century

October 22, 2021 reprobatepress

Two high-profile British trials in 2012 attempted to draw a line in the sand over what was acceptable sexual behaviour between consensual adults.

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The Video Nasties Documentaries

April 10, 2021 reprobatepress

A selection of predictably hysterical and ill-informed British TV documentaries and discussion shows from the height of the Video Nasty moral panic.

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Banned And Damned: Sex, Violence And Blasphemy On Channel 4 In The 1990s

March 19, 2021 reprobatepress

Provocative documentaries about forbidden culture, from the days when Channel 4 was still a credible and daring broadcaster.

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Would You Wish Your Servant To Read This? The Elitism Of Moral Panics

February 27, 2021 reprobatepress

The class war raging behind every call for ‘something to be done’ about the dubious pleasures of the great unwashed.

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The UK Authorities Finally Accept That Kinky Sex Is Not Obscene

February 1, 2019 reprobatepress
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