Political Attacks

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.

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

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 …

Virginia lawmakers are backing a bill to require porn sites to more stringently verify whether a person is 18 before allowing them access.

The Arkansas House approved yesterday an amendment to a Republican bill introduced in January by a state senator requiring age verification before “entering a website offering pornography” over confusing language concerning “corporate entities” and “third party vendors.”

Online porn is a minefield.

A partisan bill introduced by North Dakota Republican state senators would redefine “obscene material and performance” and “explicit sexual material” in extremely broad terms that would result in creating criminal liability for almost all instances of nudity and references to sex outside of adult ve…

“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.”