Obscenity, Indecency, Sex Dolls and Freedom
Obscenity and Indecency related offences continue to be regulated under the Criminal Code of Canada. The adjudication of the obscene and...
Pornography as a “Public Health” Crisis: Censoring Sexual Speech Through the Back Door
Pornography has once again been thrust onto the public stage. This time, however, it’s been (re)framed as a “public health” issue (as opposed to a women’s equality issue or a source of criminal harm). I’ve been researching sexual speech for almost as long as I’ve been consuming it, which is to say a long time. It therefore comes as no surprise that we’re in the midst of yet another attempt to censor it and to surveille its consumers. In March of 2016, Utah’s House of Represe
