Pornography, sex, and censorship an observer of american attitudes toward pornography faces a bewildering duality On the one hand, we buy and read and view more of it than just about anyone else, while, on the other hand, we seek to suppress it as hard as anybody else. Explicit portrayal of human sexual activity, designed to produce sexual arousal significance Attempts to censor sexually explicit materials have prompted extensive debate as to whether pornography constitutes expression that should be protected significant government interest in regulating and suppressing sexually explicit materials emerged at the beginning. In the foundational supreme court cases of the 1990s that shielded the nascent internet from censorship, and in the sweeping immunity that’s been granted to platforms under section 230, the. They further note, ‘‘for these mostly conservative advocates, proving that pornography has negative physiological effects on the body effectively neutralizes any argument about censorship or free speech and provides an opportunity to gain ground in the moralist battle against pornography’’ (p
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