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  1. Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
    The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  2. 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.
  3. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  4. Draw and you'll go to jail': the fight to save comics from the censor
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    From worried parents to policemen with built-in 'Satan detectors', underground comics have never lacked enemies. And for 30 years Neil Gaiman and his friends have fought back in the name of free speech.
  5. 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.
  6. The Folklore of Sex
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    A collection of materials illustrating American attitudes to sex, love and marriage.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Obscenity conviction
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1992
  11. Obscenity exposed
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
  12. Pornography and the Sexual Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1961
  13. 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.
  14. Radical Digressions 1
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 1979
  15. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  16. Red Menace #3
    Volume 2, Number 2 - Spring 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
  17. Scunthorpe problem
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    The Scunthorpe problem is the blocking of e-mails, forum posts or search results by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string of letters that are shared with an obscene word.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
  21. 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.

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