Twitter’s German-Specific Porn Block Is Not The Way Forward
Selectively blocking individual Twitter feeds in specific countries will not placate the censorial and feels like the thin end of the wedge.
Tag: nudity
The 1930s Nudism Racket
A vintage documentary look at the nudist lifestyle that is both enthusiastic and salacious.
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British TV Advertising’s Brief Flirtation With The Female Nipple
1994 saw British television advertising step forward into the brave new world of European openness – and then quickly step back again.
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Take Off Your Clothes And Live: A Naturist TV Commercial
A TV commercial that promotes the nudist lifestyle and brings up interesting questions about sexualisation and moralising.
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Naked Fury: The Moral Panic Over Naked Attraction’s Cheeky Advertising
How a cheeky but harmless advertising campaign wound up the easily offended.
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The Double Life Of Clare Dunkel
How one of the biggest glamour models of the 1980s became an acclaimed author of ultra-violent crime fiction.
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I Will See The Life Run Out Of You: The Curse Of Ghost Story
The problems in adapting a complex story for the screen laid bare in John Irvin’s messy, compromised version of Peter Straub’s magnificent novel.
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Free Speech As Long As I Approve Of It
The latest right-wing social media platform touting its free speech credentials has some notable exceptions to those freedoms – swearing and porn.
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Continental Pleasures For Adults Only: Shock Treatment And The Thrills Of Late Night TV In The 1970s
A controversial French paranoid classic, the search for nudity on late-night television and the accidental discovery of world cinema: memories of the 1970s.
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Making Love On Film In Margaret Salmon’s Two
The photographic artist and filmmaker sets out to find the point between the erotic and the pornographic in a new exhibition.
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Yoko Ono Gets Her Bottom Spanked By The British Censors
The time the BBFC got its knickers in a twist about four minutes of jiggling buttocks.
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Reflecting On Nature And Looking Inward: The Female Gaze Of Loreal Prystaj
Sexuality, the physical and the manipulated explored in photography.
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