Commentary

The debate over whether something is obscene is messy and increasingly political in nature.

Recently, Erica Smith – a sex educator and creator of the purity culture dropout program, an online class which seeks to help those struggling with shame about sex, guest lectured at a university sharing the scoop on porn and religion. Her teachings most likely won’t be shocking to you but to a cult…

The trade association says the overbroad and vague Assembly Bill 2273 places unconstitutional burdens on speech.

Online porn is a minefield.

“I’ve been called a groomer,” one North Dakota librarian said on this episode of Plain Talk. “I’ve been accused of wanting to teach teenagers about sex education with pornography.”

The parties in Gonzalez v. Google, a Supreme Court case, made their oral arguments on Feb. 21. At question is the safe-harbor liability immunization web

A growing and tangled “sex bureaucracy” of government regulations and new laws is taking aim at the adult entertainment industry.

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…