Showing posts with label pornography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pornography. Show all posts
Monday, November 27, 2023

Banks boycott sex workers even for legal kinds of sex work

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 Repugnance isn't erased by legality. Workers in morally contested, repugnant markets may be boycotted by banks even when their work is ...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Comstockery and abortifacients, on the way to the Supreme Court

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 The Comstock Act of 1873 made it a Federal crime to distribute information or medicines for contraception or abortion, and more generally o...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Repugnant and deleted blog posts: AI and the Justice Stewart test

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  As someone who sometimes writes and speaks about repugnant transactions and controversial markets , I'm aware that people may object n...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

Erotic movies versus porn -- times and terms are changing

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In a 1964 case, Jacobellis v. Ohio , Supreme Court Justice  Potter Stewart famously declared that it was difficult to define pornography, b...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Venus of Willendorf, on OnlyFans

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  The NY Times has the story: OnlyFans May Be a Refuge for Nude Fine Art. The Vienna Tourist Board has joined the adults-only site to displa...
Friday, August 27, 2021

OnlyFans announces then reverses a ban on explicit sexual content

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  Here's a story from the Guardian, following the reported decision of the website OnlyFans to ban certain sexually explicit content, a...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

The internet hybrid of pornography and sex work on OnlyFans

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 Sex work is mostly  about in-person, one-on-one, personal encounters.  Pornography is mostly about publishing, whether in print or other me...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Does the porn industry provide a model for disease testing and contact tracing to end corona virus lockdowns?

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The adult film industry--which produces films in which performers engage in sex with one another--has a testing service called PASS (Perfo...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Sex related businesses in Japan

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Japan is complicated. Here's a story from the Guardian that seems not to involve prostitution, but is nevertheless sex related (and chi...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Blockchain and legal but repugnant markets--a guest post by Stephanie Hurder

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Below is a guest post, by Stephanie Hurder — a Harvard Economics Ph.D. (who I've blogged about before, here , and here ) and a founder ...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Technology, diversity and money in modern pornography

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The fashion section of the NY Times recently ran a story on how technology such as webcams has democratized the pornography industry, in pa...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

The (criminal) repugnance of even child-free child pornography

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Sex with children is so abhorrent that a lot of things that look like sex with children are also illegal.   Here's a story from the Gua...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Backpage closes it's marketplace for sex

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Yesterday I posted about the legal battle brewing over whether Backpage.com is in violation of the laws against pimping and prostitution,...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Classified ads as a marketplace for sex

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Here's a story about a classified ad sex site whose publishers were recently arrested, in a case that pits freedom of the press against...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Art vs. porn: do you know it when you see it?

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An art museum in Vienna has had to censor the ads for its exhibits of male nudes: here's the story (in German, but with before and after...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

A call for fair-trade pornography

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Fair-trade pornography: Ethically sourced food and beauty products are labeled. Why not porn?  asks Erika Christakis in the Boston Globe. ...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Markets for adult entertainments

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