Political Attacks

Republicans across the nation continue their ongoing campaign to legally redefine the concept of “prurient” — and other terms like “obscenity,” “pornography” and “harmful to minors” — through diverse pieces of state legislation concerning varied topics such as online age verification, the purchase o…

The U.K.’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Commercial Sexual Exploitation (APPG-CSE) today released a report repeating myths and stereotypes peddled by anti-porn activists and recommending a wide-ranging state crackdown on sexual expression online.

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

French MPs want to expand age verification requirements to mainstream social platforms.

The Tennessee legislature today passed a bill expanding the state’s definition of “obscenity and pornography” to criminalize anyone who “engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult.”

The Montana House has endorsed a Republican bill aimed at restricting drag shows, which includes a legal redefinition of the term “prurient” as “having a tendency to excite lustful thoughts.”

Oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google were heard before the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 21 in a bid to decide whether the safe harbor provisions of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 would either be retained as is or entirely reinterpreted. Section 230, often referred t…

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

Several publications within the right-wing media ecosystem amplified, during the last news cycle, the current Republican push for age verification on websites displaying adult content.

A Republican state senator in Arkansas who introduced a bill last month requiring age verification before “entering a website offering pornography” admitted that his state initiative is only a stepping stone toward the ultimate goal of a federal mandate.