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Legislating the Libido

On the UK’s new anti-pornography laws

December 29, 2014 • by Dominic Pettman

It was certainly one of the more unorthodox protests in living memory: red-blooded women straddling the faces of submissive, supine men outside London’s Parliament House. This orgiastic pantomime was prompted by a recent amendment to the UK’s Communications Act of 2003, banning ...

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