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Adventures In Illegal Distribution: Gorotica

Remembering the oddball world of underground video production, tape trading and sexploitation splatter movies.

The Ministry For Oppression

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport joins with the BBFC and mainstream TV broadcasters in a mission to stop you from watching whatever you want.

Motherfu…ing Stupidity: The BBFC And ‘Implied Language’

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The British censor’s curious decision to treat ‘implied’ swearing no differently than if the actual word had been used.

Salman Rushdie And The International Guerillas

The deranged Pakistani film that reinvented the controversial author as an international super-villain, and was briefly banned in Britain.

The Eco-Horror Films Of William Girdler

The indie director’s two Nature Gone Wild movies are more interesting than people would have you believe.

The BBFC’s Lust For Power Has No Limits

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The latest self-serving study by the BBFC is another exercise in manipulation and nudge-policy towards having everything we see under their control.

The Strange And Elusive Pleasures Of HVC

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Looking back at Britain’s most outrageous and chaotically inept television channel, the home of sex and violence, banned movies and disrupted broadcasts.

The Video Nasties Documentaries

A selection of predictably hysterical and ill-informed British TV documentaries and discussion shows from the height of the Video Nasty moral panic.

Would You Wish Your Servant To Read This? The Elitism Of Moral Panics

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The class war raging behind every call for ‘something to be done’ about the dubious pleasures of the great unwashed.

Gestapo’s Last Orgy Is Still Too Outrageous For Britain’s Censors

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The British film censors are still confusing offensiveness for dangerousness as they ban yet another former Video Nasty.

Infantilising Britain: A Lesson From History

Looking back at the hysterical, evidence-free report on ‘sexualisation’ by Reg Bailey, the man the BBFC want to oversee their appeals committee.

Hardcore Uproar: The Extreme And Erotic Performance Art Of Beth B’s Beyond Burlesque

Exploring the intersections of traditional burlesque, performance art and classic striptease, and just how far it is all removed from the modern, uptight burlesque scene.