openDemocracy Archives - Mike South The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:19:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/mikesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 openDemocracy Archives - Mike South 32 32 1788040 Comparing porn and mainstream media https://mikesouth.com/main-stream-media/comparing-porn-and-mainstream-media-79602/ https://mikesouth.com/main-stream-media/comparing-porn-and-mainstream-media-79602/#respond Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:19:09 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=79602 Comparing porn and mainstream media, which does more harm ? By Hamiton Steele © 2024 Comparing porn and mainstream media is a controversial topic, because most people only see porn as detrimental to society. Only, a closer examination of the evidence suggests that pornography is probably less harmful than the mainstream media. Particularly when, while […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/main-stream-media/comparing-porn-and-mainstream-media-79602/feed/ 0 79602 OpenDemcracy: The false feminism of criminalizing sex workers’ clients https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/opendemcracy-the-false-feminism-of-criminalizing-sex-workers-clients-54622/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/opendemcracy-the-false-feminism-of-criminalizing-sex-workers-clients-54622/#respond Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:35:27 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=54622 Feminist arguments against sex work are as influential as they are dangerous. Sex workers fight daily battles to defend our rights. The illegality of sex work isn’t a hypothetical ‘debate’ for us. It is our reality. Hundreds of women are criminalized each year under the United Kingdom’s draconian prostitution laws while rape and other violence […]

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