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18-year-old Andrew Boeckman, who was found in possession of 1,185 indecent images of children, as well as videos of a three-year-old being raped and children being forced to have sex with dogs, was spared jail and handed an 18-month suspended sentence last month for ten counts of possessing child pornography. The privileged Eton schoolboy has […]
Continue ReadingAt the beginning of 2014, Pornhub, one of the world’s largest porn websites, released statistics that revealed the most popular search terms countries and cities within the United Kingdom. These search terms reflect what users actively search for, giving the general population an insight into the porn habits of the country as a whole, as […]
Continue ReadingVisitors to the Oxford Raise and Give (RAG) Facebook wall expressed surprise this week when a video of burritos posted by a committee member was found to contain hidden pornographic images. The video was intended to promote an eating competition held at Mission Burrito and run by the University-based charity. The ten-hour clip appeared to […]
Continue ReadingTo those following the government debates on access to internet pornography, the announcement of an opt-in porn filter will not surprise, but may disappoint. David Cameron has been hinting that he’d throw this red meat to a social conservative base greatly disappointed in their Conservative Prime Minister legalising same-sex marriage. Yet this illiberal move should […]
Continue ReadingThe current debate raging in the British media on the proposed ‘censorship’ of Lads’ Mags in high street supermarkets such as the Co-operative raises important questions about fashion publications directed at women. As the Lose The Lads’ Mags campaign initiated by the groups UK Feminista and Object notes, the sexualised images that colour the pages in […]
Continue ReadingA motion to ban student access to five porn websites was defeated in a St Anne’s JCR meeting last Sunday. The motion was proposed by the JCR Equalities and Access Officer Joe Collin in an attempt to make a public statement of the common room’s opposition to “violent and degrading pornography.” Generating considerable debate that […]
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