Thought For The Day: Jerry Barnett, Sex & Censorship

When the formidable anti-filth campaigner Mary Whitehouse died in 2001, she arguably left behind a country that was far more relaxed in its sexuality than at any previous time in history. It seemed that her crusade for ‘traditional’ (i.e. repressive) moral values had failed. But the morality movement regrouped and reinvented itself for the new millennium. It abandoned the outdated language of Christian puritanical outrage and instead presented itself as a form of feminism, protecting the rights of women who - they claimed - were victims of the sex industries.

Jerry Barnett - founder of Sex & Censorship writes for Independent Voices.

A rare counter voice to the new puritans and sex police usually found on Independent Voices.  

Obviously, in the name of balance they've printed alongside it an article, Stop Porn Culture, about how watching porn makes you go blind or something.

Image from Ben Thompson's mirth-inducing Ban This Filth!: A Warning From History.