Commentary

Bills are part of religious right’s post-Roe strategy, with most prevalent ones relating to age verification of sex-related websites

While some anti-porn crusaders would have you believe adult websites that publish user-generated content are the root of all evil when it comes to the distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), reports published by experts in the field reflect a different reality. “Protecting Children in th…

Some members of the antiabortion movement are pushing for a comeback for the Comstock Act, an archaic law passed in 1873 mainly to target what Anthony Comstock, an anti-vice crusader, viewed as dirty books. Mary Ziegler argues that this new tactic poses a threat to abortion rights even -- or perhaps…

In November, YNOT published an analysis which concluded the divided Congress, split between the GOP-held House and the Democrat-held Senate, would produce bills that could carry direct and indirect implications on free speech and other forms of expression. This especially pertains to speech generate…

The fight to confirm Gigi Sohn to a seat on the FCC mirrors ongoing battles over crucial issues like net neutrality and Section 230.

Between Louisiana’s new age verification law and the Twitter ban of Pineapple Support, the New Year is off to a rocky start for the adult biz.

YNOT’s Ben Suroeste thinks Sen. Mike Lee’s latest bills don’t go far enough in outlawing potentially enjoyable activities.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) this week introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, a bill that nominally aims to “establish a national definition of obscenity” but which would, in effect, outlaw all online sexual content nationwide.

Wired Magazine published an online opinion piece today by Virgina Heffernan, who deployed a number of stigmatizing and stereotypical tropes about sex work and depictions of sex in order to advance her entirely conjectural notions about the future of adult content on Twitter.

The war on porn could get worse in 2023 thanks to Sen. J.D. Vance and others who are pushing for a porn ban. Their demands may lack legal grounding, but they pose a serious threat.