Sweden: More effective and better protection is needed for children online
“A national Swedish evaluation study has highlighted the need for a chain of interventions to offer children who have experienced violence against their mother the right level of support to work through their experiences. There is also frequently a lack of structured risk assessments for identifying children who are at continued risk of exposure to violence, reveal researchers from the universities of Gothenburg, Karlstad, Uppsala and Örebro.”
Legal Periodical: Countering the Dangers of Online Pornography
Julie Hörnle, Countering the Dangers of Online Pornography – Shrewd Regulation of Lewd Content? (October 1, 2010). Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 65/2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1686136
Legal Periodical: Comparative Legal Approaches to Pornographic Obscenity by the United States and the United Kingdom
Two Nations, One Web: Comparative Legal Approaches to Pornographic Obscenity by the United States and the United Kingdom
William T. Goldberg, 90 B.U. L. Rev. 2121 (2010)
Teenage boys watching hours of internet pornography every week are treating their girlfriends like sex objects
Daily Mail: “‘Boys just want us to do all the stuff they see the porn stars do,’ one 16-year-old girl told me. ‘It’s as if we have to pretend we are in a movie’ . . . Latest figures suggest that boys spend as much as three hours a week gazing at porn; absorbing unrealistic images of aesthetically enhanced people, many of whom are engaged in multi-partner, violent and perverted sex acts.”
South Africa: Christian Network takes aim at proposed porn channel
Mail & Guardian Online: “If DSTV went ahead with plans for a channel featuring pornographic content, it would be like pouring fuel on the ‘fires of sexual abuse and exploitation’, the Christian Action Network network said on Thursday.”
The porn industry must take responsibility for its impact in Africa
Guardian: “One of the unforeseen consequences of globalisation is the shocking effect that western porn is having in parts of the developing world.”
