Political Attacks

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.”

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

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.