Entire school year groups have seen porn, children’s watchdog says (News)

Posted on April 4, 2013, in Children, News, Societal, Teens

READ ARTICLE HERE Entire year groups of young teenage children in schools have watched adult pornography, the children’s watchdog has warned. Sue Berelowitz, deputy children’s commissioner, suggested that the scale of access to adult pornography among children is now so widespread that it should trigger “moral panic” among parents, schools and the Government about what [...]

Children and the culture of pornography: ‘Boys will ask you every day until you say yes’ (OPINION)

Posted on March 20, 2013, in Children, News, Societal, Teens

The death of 13-year-old Chevonea Kendall-Bryan has driven the debate on the sexualisation of the young to fever pitch, but what will we do about it? There is a storm coming. I can feel it as I stand on a street corner in south London, thinking about my daughters. Lily and Rose are both 11 [...]

Police chief: If you don’t curb porn, number of sex crimes will rise (NEWS)

Posted on March 20, 2013, in News, Sexual Violence, Societal

One of the highest-ranking police officials in Scotland has warned that if pornography’s effects on the culture are not checked, it will “result in a higher number of victims of serious sexual crime.” Assistant Chief Constable Malcolm Graham said porn is warping the perceptions of a generation of British children, making young boys more likely [...]

Charlie Sheen: Connection Between Pornography, Stripping and Prostitution (Opinion)

Posted on March 18, 2013, in Opinion, Prostitution, Societal

Some of you may remember that Charlie Sheen spent time with Bree Olson.   According to Paul Cantor (July 11, 2011,  www.complex.com),  Bree Olson was one of the “top 100 porn stars,” having “200+ films under her belt.”  There is a connection between pornography, stripping and prostitution. See articles here that highlight these links. Gathered by [...]

Teen porn: The risky new trend for a fame-seeking generation (OPINION)

Posted on February 20, 2013, in Children, Opinion, Societal, Teens

We got freaked out by kids sexting. We were shocked when some high school football players ordered prostitutes with their smartphones. And now, some ambitious members of Generation Text have taken the sex/technology nexus to a new low by producing and distributing teen porn in Northern Virginia. Police locked up three boys — two 16-year-olds and a [...]

Why Iceland is seriously considering a ban on Internet porn (OPINION)

Posted on February 20, 2013, in Opinion, Pornography Laws, Societal

Iceland’s interior minister is preparing legislation that would effectively render Internet pornography inaccessible to Icelanders. The Daily Mail broke the story Tuesday: “Iceland could become the first Western democracy to block all Internet porn under radical new proposals. … Two years ago, the Icelandic Parliament (successfully) banned all strip clubs on the grounds that they [...]

Pornography, Respect, and Responsibility: A Letter to the Hotel Industry (Opinion)

Posted on January 24, 2013, in Indecency, Opinion, Pornography Laws, Societal

By: Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University. Shaykh Hamza Yusuf is co-founder and a member of the faculty of Zaytuna College. July 9, 2012 See original letter here. We write to ask you to stop offering pornographic movies in your company’s hotels. We make no proposal here to limit your [...]

U.S. Supreme Court Decision Leaves FCC Broadcast Indecency Policy Intact and Enforceable (Opinion)

Posted on January 24, 2013, in Opinion, Pornography Laws, Societal

BY: Thomas North, President of Decent TV January 2013 Read and Print Article as PDF Here. In June, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court decided FCC v Fox and ABC TV, and the ruling was in favor of those two television networks. Specifically, the Court found that an FCC policy, under which broadcasts by those networks [...]

Finance and Pornography at the SEC: A Media Studies Approach (Research)

Posted on January 16, 2013, in Internet, Pornography Laws, Societal

Abstract This short piece examines investigations into the use of workplace computers to access pornographic material at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the United States. Rather than focus on the individual or institutional morality of these activities, it examines what thinking about the role played by media in these violations of SEC policy tell us about the [...]

Is the District the country’s porn capital? (News)

Posted on January 16, 2013, in Societal, Statistics

Caitlin Dewey January 10, 2013 Find original article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-watches-more-pornography-than-any-states/2013/01/10/f23d58b4-5b4c-11e2-beee-6e38f5215402_story.html Residents in the city of D.C. watch nearly twice as much online porn per capita as people in any of the 50 states — 14.18 videos per person per year, according to the adult site PornHub.com. It makes for an imperfect comparison to contrast the District, [...]