1. Against Censorship
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1995
   Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
2. Against Sadomasochism
   A Radical Feminist Analysis
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1982
   
3. Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
   The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1994
   
4. Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1992
   Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed.
5. Bad Attitude/s On Trial
   Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1997
   This work, wrtten by four Canadian feminist university professors, analyzes law and pornography.
6. Beware the Secret Sex Police
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1989
   From the days of Anthony Comstock and the 1873 Comstock Act to the present, the U.S. Justice Department has been infested with a small band of moral vigilantes who use its power and that of the Postal Service to prosecute and persecute a carefully selected few publishers, small businessmen, and ordinary citizens for 'illegal' or 'obscene' activites of a personal nature in the area of sex.
7. Bondage pornography
   Resource Type: Article
   Bondage pornography specializes in the depiction of sexual bondage or BDSM activities, as photographs, stories, movies, or drawings.
8. The Brain That Changes Itself
   Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2007
   Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
9. Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
10. Confronting Pornography
    A Feminist on the Front Lines
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
11. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
    
12. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
13. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
14. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
    
15. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
16. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
17. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    
18. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
    
19. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
    
20. Connexions Library: Sexuality Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on sexuality.
21. Defending Pornography
    Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography.
22. Eros Denied
    Sex in Western Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    Spanning 2000 years of Western culture, Eros Denied explores the multitude of forces which through the ages have tended to suppress and pervert the sexual instincts.
23. The Erotic Arts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    Covers the uses of erotic themes in various branches of the arts at all times and in many civilizations.
24. Even a 50-something with greying hair and a smallish you-know-what can be a Porn Star
    How to make your own smut so it moves you where it counts
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    Learning how to make a pornographic film.
25. Fetish Fashion, Sex, and Power
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Dr. Steele traces the historic connections between fashion and fetishism.
26. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
27. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
    
28. Further Dialogue on Pornography
    Pornography, Censorship, Sexuality
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    The Church and right-wing groups have intensified their war on the three horsemen of immorality: abortion, gays and pornography. In the struggle against this, we have emphasized the need to oppose censorship. We have also-if appropriate or necessary-defended pornography. a freer, richer, sexuality cannot evolve by somebody (experts, feminists, socialists) legislating what liberating sex is, while censoring what falls beyond the practices so defined.
29. The Gates of Paradise
    Resource Type: Book
    
30. Girls Lean Back Everywhere
    The Law Of Obscenity And The Assault On Genius
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    De Grazia, an attorney and defender of First Amendment rights, chronicles the conflict between artistic expression and censorship. Details the struggles of authors, booksellers and publishers.
31. Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
32. A hell of a place for France's forbidden books
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1992
    On the forbidden books department of France's national library.
33. Her Tongue on My Theory
    Images, Essays and Fantasies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    This book is a compilation of photos, lesbian sexual fantasies and political/analytical writing about queer culture by a collective of three artists.
34. Heresies Sex Issue
    Heresies #12
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
35. A heritage of pornography
    Article in the Body Politic, January-February 1983
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
    Tom Waugh reports on his exploration of some of the films in the collection of Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, and considers what they might tell us about gay cultural history.
36. How to Write Porno Novels for Fun and Profit
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    
37. Indonesia 1957-1958
    War and Pornography
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
38. Internet pornography
    Resource Type: Article
    Internet pornography is pornography that is distributed by means of various sectors of the Internet, primarily via websites, peer-to-peer file sharing, or Usenet newsgroups. While pornography had been traded over the Internet since the 1980s, it was the invention of the World Wide Web in 1991 as well as the opening of the Internet to the general public around the same time that led to an explosion in online pornography.
39. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
40. Judge dismisses obscenity charges against newspaper editor
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    A Lusaka court yesterday acquitted The Post editor Chansa Kabwela of a charge of #distributing obscene material# for sending the vice-president photos of a woman giving birth in a hospital car park.
41. The left and the Porn Wars
    A Case Study in Sexual Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Published in Who's on Top?: The Politics of Heterosexuality, edited by H. Buchbinder et al. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1987
42. Libraries, Erotica & Pornography
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
43. Love Locked Out
    A survey of love, licence and restriction in the Middle Ages
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    A study of the irrepressible sexuality of the Middle Ages, describing the attempts of the church to impose a morality on libidinous medieval society, and shows how they were frustrated at every turn.
44. The Morning After
    Sex, Fear, and Feminism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once signaled such strength and courage, now seemed lodged in a foundation of weakness and fear. At Harvard, and later as a graduate student at Princeton, Roiphe saw a thoroughly new phenomenon taking shape on campus: the emergence of a culture captivated by victimization, and of a new bedroom politics in the university, cloaked in outdated assumptions about the way men and women experience sex.
45. Obscenity
    Resource Type: Article
    An obscenity (in Latin obscenus, meaning "foul, repulsive, detestable") is that which offends the prevalent sexual morality of the time, is a profanity, or is otherwise taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting, or is especially inauspicious; ill-omened.
46. Obscenity exposed
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
47. The Olympia Reader
    Selections from the Traveller's Companion Series
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
48. Opposing Censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    According to Ulli Diemer, it is dangerous to think that liberation - in this case, sexual liberation - can be promoted by repressive legislation and censorship.
    
49. Playboy's Sex in Cinema 3
    Resource Type: Book
    
50. Poles 'n holes: Working in the porn biz
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1986
    Pornography worker Chaz Bufe on work, sexuality and censorship in America.
51. Porn Gold
    Resource Type: Book
    
52. Porn stripped of its secrets
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    Covering the pornography industry.
53. Porn, Women's Rights and the Left
    A Response to Gail Dines
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    I believe that government belongs in health, education, welfare, social services, environmental protection and transport; but I do not believe that it belongs in our bedrooms.
54. Pornography
    The Other Side
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
55. Pornography
    A brief submitted to the Commission D'Etude sur le Cinema et l'Audiovisuel
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1982
    
56. Pornography
    Resource Type: Article
    Pornography or porn is the portrayal of explicit sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual excitement and erotic satisfaction. Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video, or video game. However, when sexual acts are performed for a live audience, by definition, it is not pornography, as the term applies to the depiction of the act, rather than the act itself. Thus, portrayals such as sex shows and striptease are not classified as pornography.
57. Pornography and Prostitution
    Issues Paper, November 1983
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
58. Pornography and Prostitution in Canada
    Reports of the Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    
59. Pornography and the Sexual Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1961
    
60. Pornography in a Free Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    An examination of public policy debates about pornography in the United States in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
61. Pornography and the Sex Censors
    A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
62. Pornography's Challenge to Liberal Ideology
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1980
    Feminists who are currently concerned about some types of sexually stimulating materials presently available share underlying liberal attitudes with respect to the nature of human sexuality and the need to promote healthier alternatives to the view of human sexuality with which history presents us. We are not in any way opposed to the manufacture, sale, or distribution of materials which stress the positive aspects of human sexuality.
63. Queer Progress
    From Homophobia to Homonationalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
64. Radical Digressions 1
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 1979
    
65. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2000
    
66. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Kendrick looks at the idea of pornography since the word was coined a century and a half ago, concentrating less on the books and pictures that have instigated battles over "pornography" than on what people thought and felt about them.
67. 7 Places to Find Porn You Actually Like
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    It's not hard to find porn online, but it is hard to find good porn online. The mainstream industry tends to produce a lot of wham-and-bam content, and while that might sell, there are a whole lot of people who don't find it all that appealing. Fortunately, the Internet is a huge space, and tucked away in its unseen corners is a lot of sexy stuff. Here are 7 places to look for porn that's a little more interesting.
68. Sex & Censorship
    Resource Type: Website
    The UK is experiencing increasing levels of moral panic over sex and sexuality.
    We are told that Internet porn is causing an increase in rape; yet sexual violence is actually falling.
    We are told that 'trolls' on Twitter are leading to an increase in domestic violence, yet domestic violence is at its lowest in decades.
    All of these panics, amplified by the media and self-serving campaign groups, have the same objective: more censorship.
    Enough is Enough! Free speech and sexual freedom are under their greatest threat since the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
    The Sex & Censorship campaign sets out to challenge the myths and rumours. We aim to reach out to journalists and politicians and ensure that scare stories are not used to introduce yet more laws and regulations that further restrict our access to information that is freely available elsewhere.
69. Sex Information and Education Council of Canada Launches New Website
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sex Information and Education Council of Canada Launches New Website
70. Sex, Love, Desire: Feminists Struggle Over the Portray of Sex
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
    The rift that has developed between "pro-sex" feminists and anti-pornography activists is having far-reaching implicationsfor the feminist movement.
71. SexSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
72. The Sexuality of Men
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    Essays on aspects of male sexuality.
73. SIECCAN The Sex Information and Education Council of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
74. The Snuff Film
    The Making of an Urban Legend
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    One of the most enduring, and little-recognized, urban legends about cinema is the "snuff film," in which actresses are supposedly actually killed onscreen. Over the course of nearly a quarter century, the snuff film has transformed from grade-Z slasher film to hoax to anti-pornographers' straw man to urban legend, and shows no sign of slowing down.
75. Socialist Register 1993
    Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1993
    
76. A Story About Making a Sex Movie
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Politicians try to impose censorship by the back door, by imposing record-keeping obligations that are impossible to comply with.
77. The Story of O
    Resource Type: Book
    
78. The Story of O Comic Book
    Volume 1
    Resource Type: Book
    
79. Ten Thousand Roses
    The Making of a Feminist Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
80. Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied on Porn Habits as Part of Plan to Discredit 'Radicalizers'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document. The document, provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, identifies six targets, all Muslims, as "exemplars" of how "personal vulternabilities" can be learned through electronic surveillance, and then exploited to undermine a target's credibility, reputation and authority.
81. The Trouble With Billionaires
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatends everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
82. UK Pornstars Fight Back
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Stop Porn Culture circus represents a coalition of the loudest anti-sex and pro-censorship voices in the English-speaking world. Former pornstar Renée Richards calls on UK pornstars, strippers, models, sex workers and their supporters to take a stand and join us to protest against those who have, for so long, labelled and lied about the women in the sex industries.
83. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    How to push for social change without breaking the law.
84. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
    Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
85. Women Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    Essays which argue that women have nothing to gain by allying themselves with anti-feminist forces and mainstream politicians. The contributors say that censorhip will be used against feminists who seek deep and permanent changes in the status quo.
86. Women Against Censorship (book review)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1985
    
87. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
88. The X-Rated Free Market
    On Pornography, Royal Spermatozoa and the Free Market
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Is the pornography market the only free one? The question might seem provocative. Or a gross oversimplification. But it might also shed some light on certain points, namely those related with the political shaping of markets.

Experts on Pornography in the Sources Directory

1. AMEA - World Museum of Erotic Art
2. Connexions
3. Museum of Sex