Commentary

By Cathy ReisenwitzOriginally published in LPNews, 2022 Spring Edition As the War on Drugs begins to ramp down after 50 years of failure and devastation, authoritarians are hardly going quietly into that good night. The nanny state never sleeps, and the new moral panic is the scourge of sex work a…

Companies like Mastercard are cracking down on adult content. Are they doing more harm than good?

The latest developments in the War on Porn are concerning, but there’s no cause to panic. We’ve been at this for decades, after all.

Sex workers are under attack from multiple angles. The law and banks are pressuring adult entertainers and that’s just the beginning.

The tactics of J.D. Vance are nothing new — but they are relics of the past.

A debate on finding the line between exploitation and empowerment in the sex industry.

As an industry, we’re pretty good at calling out fictions about our industry. When the New Yorker published an attack on Pornhub this week, members of the industry rushed after the author and the outlet — calling out the misinformation , misquotes and straight-up antiporn pro

With social issues defining more and more political campaigns, Rothbard’s pitch for the GOP became a relevant playbook for future candidates. If the motto “Culture is downstream from law,” has taught us anything, it’s that the relationship between legislation and behavior has been consistent. Murray…

I’ve already explained the dangers of the EARN IT Act, which is supported by 19 Senators, who are misleading people with a “fact” sheet that is mostly full of myths. As Senator Wy…

In 2020, the French Parliament passed an amendment that put the country at the forefront of attempts by democratic states to restrict young people’s access to legal online pornography. This study exa...