More than half of all Americans live in states that now (or by year’s end) will require them to prove they’re adults in order to access most legal porn sites.
How can you prove you’re a grownup? By uploading your driver’s license, passport, mortgage or employment record.
Raise your hand if you want to share that kind of data with the government—in the context of watching porn, no less.
The words & pictures pornographers use may offend you, but they protect your right to express yourself in ways that offend others.
“Why do MY rights have to be defended by disgusting people saying ugly things?”
Well, that’s how it works. No one wants to stop you from posting cat videos. No one…
When the media cover up what Congresswoman AOC actually said with asterisks and euphemisms, it’s bad for America.
Compare the censored version of her moment with the actual video.
Way back in 2004 there was Superbowl XXXVIII. The halftime show featured a Janet Jackson-Justin Timberlake duet. Timberlake wore what guys wear in Denny’s, and Jackson wore a black leather bustier over a red lace undergarment.
They closed their song with Timberlake dramatically pulling off the bustier cup covering Jackson’s right breast. For exactly one-half second (I am NOT making this up), half the planet saw her nipple. How do you suppose this story will be re-told in a post-Harvey Weinstein world?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is now displaying a painting some people don’t like. I’m tired of censors obsessively seeing sex everywhere they look. They try to protect themselves–and the world–by getting rid of anything they can interpret as erotic.
As a lifelong “liberal” it breaks my heart to say this, but “liberals” and “progressives” are making it harder and harder to write about things that matter. Here are examples of facts that I and others hesitate to write about: