The War on Porn

The mainstream discussion of pornography seems to have two opposing hermeneutics.

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

Arkansas’ SB 66, a Republican bill that would require age verification before “entering a website offering pornography,” cleared the state House last week.

SpankPay, an online crypto payment service targeted at the adult industry, informed its customers and supporters today that it’s permanently shutting down services due to a hostile banking environment. The company ran into troubles with service provider Wyre after that company switched payment proce…

West Jakarta police arrested and publicly shamed two young Indonesian women for nude camming earlier this week, charging them with “pornography.”

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…

Six months after suspending two religious “porn surveillance” apps following a Wired magazine report exposing them as spyware, Google Play has quietly reinstated Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You on March 1st.

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

Women’s rights groups in Thailand used the International Women’s Day to campaign for the legalization of sex work, hoping to create a safer environment for women in the industry. The …

A former actress and her husband are among a group of 16 suspects indicted by public prosecutors for allegedly operating online gambling and pornographic websites and money laundering.