A little-noticed court ruling represents the biggest setback for opponents of child porn in decades.
- Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies, CEO of Culture Reframed, Wheelock College
Stephanie Clifford may be a ‘porn star,’ but her success is hardly typical of the vast majority of performers affected by the seismic changes in the industry.
While parents are growing more concerned about their children’s easy access to porn, they often don’t realize just how ‘hardcore’ and violent it has become and how early their kids are seeing it.
Playboy’s decision to drop nude women from its pages represents just how mainstream hard-core pornography has become.
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