Blocking porn for under-18s will only make things worse for young people left without adequate sex education.
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Moves to make sex education compulsory cannot come quickly enough.
Pornography has been prescribed to treat ‘sexual disfunction’ for decades. Yet research shows that the vast majority of mainstream commercial porn is violent and degrading to women.
The Digital Economy Bill would effectively create a hackable register of pornography users and block ‘unconventional’ material.
Online porn is big business and has plenty of adults viewing the content. But young children can also be exposed to porn, and much of that comes from accidental or unwanted exposure.
This French film about upper middle-class teenagers having orgies gets to the heart of teen sex issues in the age of YouTube.
How sexual attraction to a disabled body is about more than just desires of the flesh.
Asking female porn directors to share their work for free on International Women’s Day is a backward step that masks industry inequalities.
Data from Pornhub shows the word ‘teen’ is among the most searched for terms – which raises a difficult question.
Pornography is a handy scapegoat that diverts our attention away from our deeper problems with sex and violence.
The stash of hidden magazines you might remember from your youth is vastly different from the sexually explicit content children are exposed to today.
Playboy’s decision to drop nude women from its pages represents just how mainstream hard-core pornography has become.
50 Cent was caught dishing dirt with revenge porn aimed at the girlfriend of his rival. He hopes to beat the rap by declaring bankruptcy. But can he?
Technology to filter porn from children is clearly not enough to protect them.
The imminent release of Fifty Shades of Grey has already provoked widespread protest, although the protesters have not actually seen it. The Guardian recently proclaimed: “This is not a porn film.” But…
When 56-year-old Madonna posed topless for Interview magazine this month the public reaction was a stifled yawn. Her erotic exposé was the latest in a recent swathe of celebrities stripping off. In November…
We often talk about educating young people about consent but what does this mean? Does it simply boil down to teaching young men not to rape? And, if this is the case, it’s a depressingly low bar. Instead…
It’s a well-worn political trick that you caricature and call your opponents names when you don’t want to engage with the substance of their claims. In debates about porn, pornography advocates often seek…
Communication Minister Stephen Conroy’s recent decision not to impose a mandatory internet filter on sexually explicit content is a welcome injection of realism into the frequently febrile discussion of…
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