pornography

I chat with the famous QC Jeremy Hutchinson 10 months before his death in 2017 at the age of 102. We talk about pornography, prostitution, and the Lady Chatterley Trial while drinking cups of tea in his sitting room in Sussex. Out of…

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…

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…

The UK is now one step closer to making it a criminal offence to pay for sex – but not to sell it. The introduction of a Sex Buyer Law would fundamentally change the nation’s approach to the “oldest profession”, by shifting the burden of…

We are witnessing the beginning of a third wave of feminism. Taking up the struggle of Victorian social reformers, suffragettes and the revolutionary feminists of the 1970s, feminists today are fighting again for equal treatment and an end…

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,…

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…

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,…

This is a discussion of the issues around individual freedom in regards to the consumption of porn - and who is responsible for the influence it has on children The Technology section of the Guardian has published an article which…

University of Leicester's Centre for Medical Humanities discusses my research into pornography. Topics discussed include the glamourisation of the pornography industry, revenge porn and Fifty Shades of Grey.

The results of a survey commissioned by NSPCC Childline about young people’s consumption of internet pornography have just been published. A poll of nearly 700 12 to 13-year-olds in the UK reveals that one in five of those surveyed said…

As part of the Women of the World festival at the Southbank Centre, Woman’s Hour organized a debate on porn, asking the question ‘Can Porn Empower Women?’. Can it liberate, celebrate or enhance or does it enslave, debase or corrupt? Jane…