Societies appear to be subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic. A condition, episode, person or a group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests; its nature is presented in a stylized and stereotypical fashion by the mass media; the moral barricades are manned by editors, bishops, politicians and other right-thinking people; socially accredited experts pronounce their diagnoses and solutions; ways of coping are evolved or (more often) resorted to; the condition then disappears, submerges or deteriorates and becomes more visible. Sometimes the object of the panics is quite novel and at other times it is something which has been in existence long enough, but suddenly appears in the limelight. Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten, except in folklore and collective memory; at other times it has more serious and long-lasting repercussions and might produce such changes as those in legal and social policy or even in the way the society conceives itself...
Folk Devils & Moral Panics, Stanley Cohen (1972).
Ban the internet! Ban electricity! Ban children! Ban Page 3! Ban lads' mags! Ban the body! Ban sex! Ban twerking! Ban wanking! Ban fun! Ban fag packets! Ban cheap booze! Ban legal highs! Ban video games! Ban ask.fm! Ban Twitter! Ban travellers! Ban benefits! Ban squatting! Ban gay! Ban the niqab! Ban the BBC! Ban Stoli! Ban Sochi! Ban Russia! Ban rational thought! Ban brains! Ban the bum! BAN THE BAN!
Brass Eye Paedophilia special, Channel 4, 2001 - a satire
on media-driven hysteria and moral panics.
You gotta laugh to keep from crying...
Update: More Pornballs -
Compulsive users of porn show the same signs of addiction in their brain as those hooked on booze or drugs, according to researchers The Daily Mail.
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Sex & Censorship conference organised by
@PornPanic, London, Monday September 23rd.
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Russia's Anti-Gay Law: Values We've Been Advocating For Years, Bryan Fischer http://huff.to/1dkpIrg
ReplyDeleteOn her radio commentary yesterday, Linda Harvey said she couldn’t comprehend why anyone would be opposed to Russia’s new law criminalizing speech it considers “homosexual propaganda.”
ReplyDeleteThe Mission America president, who has endorsed and promoted the law, called on the US to view the law as a model, such as its ban on gay adoption and pride events: “A ban on homosexuals adopting children was also part of this law as well as a ban on gay pride parades, something we should consider in cities here, and a ban on any public promotion of homosexuality.”
She also praised Russia’s efforts to prevent gay people from “influencing children.”
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harvey-ban-gay-pride-parades-and-adoption#sthash.kutJkMym.dpuf