Desperate Video: Jaws, Kong, Disney, Depravity And Corruption
Our latest collection of video features from our YouTube channel covers everything from banned books to Disney novelties.
Tag: obscene publications act
The Very British Sex Scams Of The 1980s
In the days before legalised porn, the restrictive laws in Britain proved to be a huckster’s paradise, with scams, cons and rip-offs the order of the day.
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Police Raids In The Last Days Of Obscenity
A personal memoir of falling foul of Manchester’s over-zealous Obscene Publications Squad – and fighting back.
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The Obscenity Trials Of The Century
Two high-profile British trials in 2012 attempted to draw a line in the sand over what was acceptable sexual behaviour between consensual adults.
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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.
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Banned And Damned: Sex, Violence And Blasphemy On Channel 4 In The 1990s
Provocative documentaries about forbidden culture, from the days when Channel 4 was still a credible and daring broadcaster.
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Would You Wish Your Servant To Read This? The Elitism Of Moral Panics
The class war raging behind every call for ‘something to be done’ about the dubious pleasures of the great unwashed.
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