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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.
Pornography is having negative impacts on children and young people. And increased sexual violence among children is only the tip of the iceberg.
If you find your partner having a virtual relationship with someone else – or with a computer-generated individual – is that the same as adultery?
How real is the threat of pornography? And what are the most appropriate responses?
The Digital Economy Bill would effectively create a hackable register of pornography users and block ‘unconventional’ material.
There’s no evidence that the increase in children committing sexual offences is because they watch online porn.
When translating The 120 Days of Sodom, we had a duty to be just as rude, crude, and revolting as Sade.
Drawing on surveys and group discussions with teenage boys about their use of pornography, Gonzo provides a window into young men’s experiences that’s in equal parts funny, engaging, and confronting.
There is no doubt that virtual reality is the next big thing. But for families with young children, it may be wiser to wait a little before leaping headlong into this new reality.
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.
When reality fails to match fantasy, relationships can suffer.
Porn is probably not the most important cause of sexual harms for young people.
This French film about upper middle-class teenagers having orgies gets to the heart of teen sex issues in the age of YouTube.
More pupils in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa are taking smartphones to school. These can be useful learning tools – or terrible distractions.
Pornography has implications for public health, but scholars need to think critically about the issue and look past rhetoric.
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.
The debate around around children and online porn is more than just requiring sites ask their age.
Pornography is a handy scapegoat that diverts our attention away from our deeper problems with sex and violence.
Top contributors
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Senior lecturer, La Trobe University
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Research Associate, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Interim Director, UWA Public Policy Institute; Associate Professor & Programme Co-ordinator (Masters of Public Policy), The University of Western Australia
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Criminal Law, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies, CEO of Culture Reframed, Wheelock College
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Professor of Sociology, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Calgary
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Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate Professor in Marketing, RMIT University
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Professor of Media and Communication and Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Associate professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
