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News Releases

Judge dismisses obscenity charges against newspaper editor
2009-11-17
Reporters without Borders
A Lusaka court yesterday acquitted The Post editor Chansa Kabwela of a charge of #distributing obscene material# for sending the vice-president photos of a woman giving birth in a hospital car park.
Sex Information and Education Council of Canada Launches New Website
2009-10-21
SIECCAN, The Sex Information and Education Council of Canada
Sex Information and Education Council of Canada Launches New Website

Sources Select Resources

Against Censorship
Diemer, Ulli
Article
1995
Ulli Diemer
Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
Bondage pornography
Article
Bondage pornography specializes in the depiction of sexual bondage or BDSM activities, as photographs, stories, movies, or drawings.
Connexions Library: Sexuality Focus
Website
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on sexuality.
Even a 50-something with greying hair and a smallish you-know-what can be a Porn Star
How to make your own smut so it moves you where it counts
Hannon, Gerald
Article
1998
NOW
Learning how to make a pornographic film.
'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2009
Canadian Dimension - Volume 43, Number 1 - January/February 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on ...
Further Dialogue on Pornography
Pornography, Censorship, Sexuality
Herzig, Nancy; Bernabe, Rafael
Article
1997
Against the Current
The Church and right-wing groups have intensified their war on the three horsemen of immorality: abortion, gays and pornography. In the struggle against this, we have emphasized the need to oppose cen...
Indonesia 1957-1958
War and Pornography
Blum, William
Article
1995
Common Courage Press
An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
Internet pornography
Article
Internet pornography is pornography that is distributed by means of various sectors of the Internet, primarily via websites, peer-to-peer file sharing, or Usenet newsgroups. While pornography had been...
Obscenity
Article
An obscenity (in Latin obscenus, meaning "foul, repulsive, detestable") is that which offends the prevalent sexual morality of the time, is a profanity, or is otherwise taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or ...
Poles 'n holes: Working in the porn biz
Bufe, Chaz
Article
1986
Processed World
Pornography worker Chaz Bufe on work, sexuality and censorship in America.
Porn stripped of its secrets
Winbush, Jeff
Article
1998
NOW
Covering the pornography industry.
Porn, Women's Rights and the Left
A Response to Gail Dines
Barnett, Jerry
Article
2014
CounterPunch
I believe that government belongs in health, education, welfare, social services, environmental protection and transport; but I do not believe that it belongs in our bedrooms.
Pornography
Article
Pornography or porn is the portrayal of explicit sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual excitement and erotic satisfaction. Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books,...
Pornography and the Sex Censors
A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
Crossen, Cathy
Article
1996
Against the Current
The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagoni...
7 Places to Find Porn You Actually Like
Article
2016
Alternet
It's not hard to find porn online, but it is hard to find good porn online. The mainstream industry tends to produce a lot of wham-and-bam content, and while that might sell, there are a whole lot of ...
SexSources.ca
Website
2017
Sources
A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools ma...
The Snuff Film
The Making of an Urban Legend
Stine, Scott Aaron
Article
1999
Skeptical Inquirer
One of the most enduring, and little-recognized, urban legends about cinema is the "snuff film," in which actresses are supposedly actually killed onscreen. Over the course of nearly a quarter century...
A Story About Making a Sex Movie
Article
2005
Politicians try to impose censorship by the back door, by imposing record-keeping obligations that are impossible to comply with.
Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied on Porn Habits as Part of Plan to Discredit 'Radicalizers'
Article
2013
Huffington Post
The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the a...
UK Pornstars Fight Back
Richards, Renee
Article
2014
Sex & Censorship
The Stop Porn Culture circus represents a coalition of the loudest anti-sex and pro-censorship voices in the English-speaking world. Former pornstar Renée Richards calls on UK pornstars, strippers, mo...
The X-Rated Free Market
On Pornography, Royal Spermatozoa and the Free Market
Raventos, Daniel; Wark, Julie
Article
2014
CounterPunch
Is the pornography market the only free one? The question might seem provocative. Or a gross oversimplification. But it might also shed some light on certain points, namely those related with the poli...

Sources Bookshelf

The Erotic Arts
Webb, Peter
Book
1975
Covers the uses of erotic themes in various branches of the arts at all times and in many civilizations.
The Morning After
Sex, Fear, and Feminism
Roiphe, Katie
Book
1993
When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once signaled su...

Media

Exxxtasy TV
It is a pay-TV adult entertainment television channel consisting of explicit adult material, primarily pornographic films.
Maleflixxx Television
Programming consisting of gay male pornography. It is also noted as the first 24 hour channel of its kind in the world.
Penthouse TV
Programming consists of explicit adult material, primarily pornographic films. Penthouse TV has a more couples oriented programming for those that want to explore their intimacy together.
Red Hot TV
Red Hot TV is a 24-hour subscription specialty adult channel. It features the widest selection of choice adult movies from the world#s leading studios and producers, including a constant stream of exc...
XXX Action Clips Channel (XXX TV)
Programming consists of 5 to 20 minutes clips from adult feature films from various adult film genres


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