According to a pornography historian, Playboy was always able to stay above the fray because nudity was never central to its brand.
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Playboy’s decision to drop nude women from its pages represents just how mainstream hard-core pornography has become.
The internet, smartphones and social media mean that extensive sharing of private images without consent is far easier than in the past. And the severity of the harm victims suffer is far greater.
The continued use by politicians and the media of the term “child pornography” minimises the offence’s seriousness. They are online child abuse material.
In any other industry, protection would be mandatory. But the porn lobby is too powerful.
A documentary followed what happened when adolescents were given classes about pornography.
As police record their largest ever volume of revenge porn allegations, it’s clear that more must be done to address this crime - but what?
Is revenge porn just one example of technology intersecting with sexual and domestic violence? What legal efforts have been made to combat it?
Magazines like Zoo not only reproduce and legitimise sexist and predatory views of sexual violence and gender roles. They also make such attitudes seem normal and acceptable.
Is it appropriate that a Playboy centrefold from 1972 is still being used as a standard test image in image processing circles?
Ensuring it’s adults that must process their adult emotions - and not children stumbling across them through pornography - is the adult thing to do.
Teenagers see and use porn – rather than bury our head in the sand let’s help them to discuss and understand its effects.
A Danish professor has called on schools to screen pornography so students are prepared to see it in the real world.
This Valentine’s Day, why not ditch the roses and celebrate by watching some sexual violence? That’s a more honest marketing pitch for the Fifty Shades of Grey film. It’s astonishing that, in 2015, sexual…
The imminent release of Fifty Shades of Grey has already provoked widespread protest, although the protesters have not actually seen it. The Guardian recently proclaimed: “This is not a porn film.” But…
India’s government has displeased many internet users by blocking access to some major websites at the start of the new year. A total of 32 sites were blocked, although sanctions have been lifted from…
When 56-year-old Madonna posed topless for Interview magazine this month the public reaction was a stifled yawn. Her erotic exposé was the latest in a recent swathe of celebrities stripping off. In November…
A legislative provision that has just come into force bans certain acts in online pornography produced in the UK, with the effect of bringing video-on-demand services into line with the British Board of…
“Revenge porn”. It’s when a partner or ex-partner posts nude or intimate pictures or videos online and without consent. And in the absence of better laws, perpetrators are largely getting away with it…
Pornhub’s recent announcement that it would “Give America Wood” quickly went viral. The site’s pledge to plant a tree for every 100 “Big Dick” videos viewed was covered by everyone from AdWeek to Time…
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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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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 Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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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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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Associate Professor in Marketing, RMIT University
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Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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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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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
