British politicians and professional censors join forces with American fundamentalists to demand a ban on porn.
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The Pope Does Not Approve Of Porn
Priests and nuns have been watching porn on their phones, and The Pope is not at all amused.
The Political Fixation With Shifting The Blame Onto Porn
In the desperation to find something to blame apart from the obvious, sexual expression is always a go-to distraction.
Politicians, Prohibitionists And Porn: A Bad Combination
Let’s not allow outrage at inappropriate workplace behaviour by an MP to further embolden the moralising opportunists.
The Real-World Consequences Of Outlawing Porn
Censoring adult entertainment does not reduce demand – it just allows fraudsters, blackmailers and corruption to flourish.
The Many Layers Of Stupidity To The Age Verification Plan
Years after abandoning it as an unworkable security nightmare, the UK government’s age verification rules are back – and are actually worse than ever.
Things Fell Apart: Jon Ronson Explores The Culture Wars
The author and broadcaster explores how we reached our current state of extreme tribal division over everything in a new podcast series.
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.
Free Speech As Long As I Approve Of It
The latest right-wing social media platform touting its free speech credentials has some notable exceptions to those freedoms – swearing and porn.
Flirting With Flexi-Sex
From the days before phone sex and cam girls, the pioneering efforts to bring aural sex to adult magazine readers.
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.
The Silencing Of Dangerous Ideas: Britain’s Shameful Free Speech History Is Not About To Change
The UK government’s sudden and selective embrace of free speech is a little hard to swallow.