Cultural Attacks

Amidst a full blown media-fueled moral panic in the U.K. designed to sell the controversial Online Safety Bill to the public, influential journalist Jenni Murray published an extremist tirade in the Daily Mail last week advocating for all adult content to be made illegal and for the imprisonment its…

Free Speech Coalition (FSC) has released an online guide tracking new anti-porn age verification laws and bills in multiple states, in a wave of what the trade organization has called “the most aggressive censorship we’ve seen in decades.”

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…

Many thousands of Thais have worked in the sex industry for decades without legal protection. So it’s not surprising that most of them are looking forward eagerly to the passage of the Sex Workers Protection Bill.

The Russian government has granted its media regulator the authority to block websites containing “LGBT propaganda” without a court order, according to a decree published on Monday. “Information propagating non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences” now serves as grounds for blacklisting…

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.

ESPLERP is calling for supporters to join them in marking International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, December 17.

A Tory MP was spotted sitting next to a female colleague in the Commons watching porn on his phone. Parliament’s independent watchdog is now investigating - and a minister called for him to be expelled

In his letters, John D. Allen demanded $5 million and that “all telecommunications containing immoral content” such as pornography be removed from the internet within 180 days.

“There is nothing I was doing on OnlyFans that I wasn’t doing as a single woman except that I found a way to monetize it.”