Pornography

ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP RESPONSE Links Between Pornography, Sexual Coercion, and Violence in the Lives of Children and Young People. My evidence to the APPG Inquiry into links between pornography and sexual violence which takes…
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This House would ban pornography Monday at 19:00–21:00 JAN29 2018 Lecture Theatre D103 25 Gordon Street London, WC1H 0AY London, United Kingdom UCL Debating Society latest Free Public Debate on the motion Proposers: Dr Heather…
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It’s time to stop using regressive evolutionary theory to justify men’s sexual objectification of women Even ‘good men’ continue to defend men’s right to access female bodies, using debunked evolutionary theory. A backlash against…
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Roundtable: TRT World Live Discussion topic: In the wrong hands, position and influence can be a very dangerous thing. Harvey Weinstein is accused of using his power to abuse and manipulate others and he's not the only one. What will it…
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I found myself spending the few days over the New Year period in a community deep in the UK countryside. Apart from sharing domestic chores, much of the time could be spent deliciously relaxing on sofas arranged around a huge wood burning…
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PODCAST Today, pornography is inescapable. It shapes our self-image, our relationships, our sexualities — even our body hair removal practices. In academia, many media scholars have taken a non-critical approach to porn and third wave…
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In certain social circles, praising “sex workers” has become fashionable. How has prostitution — an outdated, slavery-like industry — been made to look so modern? A BBC Three video making the rounds on social media features a number of…
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Sexual LiberationThe history of Playboy and the history of my own sexual life interleave. In my early teenage years in the late 1960s my limited knowledge of pornography extended only to the following: seeing a magazine behind the bike…
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I have admired Peter Tatchell for many years. He is an heroic political figure who has persistently spoken out against human rights abuses. In so doing he has opened himself to social vilification and even to physical violence.…
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The Press Association recently obtained new figures under Freedom of Information (FoI) laws, which show that police are dealing with their largest ever volume of revenge pornography cases. In the six months from October 2014 to April 2015,…
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Goedele Liekens, a Belgian UN goodwill ambassador for sexual health, has waded into the UK’s debate about whether sex education should be compulsory with a new ((http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sex-in-class) campaigning for a mandatory…
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It’s a question that goes to the heart of many of the troubling political, ethical and legal issues in internet pornography production and consumption – should condoms be mandatory in porn? From the point of view of health and safety,…
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