Libel and Pornography

The Sound of Silence: Political Accountability and Libel Law

This paper explores the role played by press regulation in selecting the information mass media deliver to voters. The focus is on whether press regulation can reduce political corruption and increase voters’ welfare. By endogenizing the response of the voters to information from the media, we clarify under which circumstances regulation reduces or increases corruption. We show that punitive la...

Annie oakley guns down "cocaine libel".

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Associations between relational sexual behaviour, pornography use, and pornography acceptance among US college students.

Pornography use among emerging adults in the USA has increased in recent decades, as has the acceptance of such consumption. While previous research has linked pornography use to both positive and negative outcomes in emerging adult populations, few studies have investigated how attitudes toward pornography may alter these associations, or how examining pornography use together with other sexua...

Pornography Viewing: Keep Calm and Carry On.

Sexual medicine has expressed concern about the presumed negative effects of pornography on sexual aggression, sexual relationships, and sexual function since the inception of the scientific study of human sexuality. Ivan Bloch, the German physician who coined the term sexology, asserted as long ago as 1902 that “[t]here is no sexual aberration, no perverse act, however frightful, that is not p...

Child pornography: legal and medical considerations.