• Friday, November 13, 2009 - 1:53pm By Chris Hall
    Last April, the University of Maryland inadvertently found itself at the center of a debate about free speech, academic freedom, and pornography when a student group on the College Park campus tried to screen the award-winning adult film Pirates 2:...
  • Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 1:01pm By John Ozimek
    The British film establishment is in a lather, and it's all because a female film director has dared to claim she knows more about women's erotic experience—in particular, female ejaculation—than they do. Last week, female porn director...
  • Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 10:57am By Liz Farsaci
    A 25-year-old Polish man named Ryszard Giersz recently won a landmark court case in which his neighbour, Anna S., was fined after she repeatedly harassed him verbally. Among her taunts was the term "faggot"—and the court, located in...
  • Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 3:29pm By Chris Hall
    The Free Speech Coalition and fourteen other plaintiffs have filed suit against the Federal Government challenging the 18 U.S.C. §§2257 regulations, which require filmmakers and photographers to keep age records of all models and actors...
  • Friday, August 14, 2009 - 11:29am By Chris Hall
    Two Tennessee school districts have stopped blocking LGBT sites in response to a lawsuit by the ACLU. Knox County Schools and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools had been using Internet filters to keep students from accessing non-pornographic...
  • Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 6:53pm By John Pettitt
    Federal Judge Julie Robinson has blocked a Kansas law banning roadside signs for strip clubs and sex shops. The Kansas law joins similar laws in Georgia South Carolina and Missouri that have been struck down in the past. The law was enacted in...
  • Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 11:24am By Chris Hall
    In the aftermath of the controversy over a Japanese video game called RapeLay, the Japanese software industry has decided to take the easy way out and go for censorship. RapeLay, a game in which players scored points by stalking and raping a woman...
  • Sunday, April 12, 2009 - 4:29pm By Chris Hall
    Update 4/12 10:20pm: Amazon calls this issues a glitch and promises to fix it. In the early days of the MPAA's rating system for movies, Jack Nicholson famously observed that the unspoken standard was that if you showed someone kissing a tit, it was...
  • Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 2:45pm By Chris Hall
    Title 18 of the United States Code, Section 2257 contains regulations for enforcing record-keeping requirements for producers and distributors of adult content, especially records of the consent and age of the models or actors in films, videos, or...