1. Against Censorship
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1995
   Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
2. Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do 
   The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1994
   
3. Anti-Porn is the Theory, Repression is the Practice
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1987   Published: 1989
   The campaign against pornography has been one of the most visible faces of feminism for more than a decade now. Few have wanted to know whether the 'clean up' they were promoting strengthened women's hand or the State's. Thus they have attracted supporters and allies among politicians from the New Right, which governs (among others) the US and the UK, from the old moralizing Left, and even from the trendy Left. Although this anti-porn lobby is not homogeneous, it is rare for any part of it to dissociate itself from the most powerful pro-censorship law-and-order identity.
4. Art and Pornography
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1969
   
5. Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1992
   Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed.
6. Bad Attitude/s On Trial
   Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997
   This work, wrtten by four Canadian feminist university professors, analyzes law and pornography.
7. The Brain That Changes Itself
   Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
8. Confronting Pornography
   A Feminist on the Front Lines
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1990
   
9. Connexions
   Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1983
   
10. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    
11. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    
12. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
13. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
14. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
15. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
16. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
17. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
18. Connexions Library: Sexuality Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on sexuality.
19. Defending Pornography 
    Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography.
20. Eros Denied
    Sex in Western Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964   Published: 1966
    Spanning 2000 years of Western culture, Eros Denied explores the multitude of forces which through the ages have tended to suppress and pervert the sexual instincts.
21. Feminists Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Website
    A group of feminist academics and campaigners who fight censorship from a feminist perspective. They believe:
    1) Censorship is a dangerous tool that is primarily used to suppress dissent from those who would challenge oppression by society and the state, and particularly victimizes minorities.
    2) Censorship is used by those in power as a way to avoid dealing with serious, intractable problems in society that require real, imaginative action, and are not solved by banning words and images.
    3) Women must have recourse to free expression in order to explore the truth of our own experience and sexuality that has been forcibly hidden from us for millennia, and the state must no longer be permitted to interfere with this discourse.
    4) Censorship can never eliminate evil ideas, and so the best answer to bad speech is more speech.
    5) Censorship gives unacceptable powers to the police to invade our privacy and harass individuals who they find threatening although they pose no threat to others.
22. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
23. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
    
24. Further Dialogue on Pornography
    Pornography, Censorship, Sexuality
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    The Church and right-wing groups have intensified their war on the three horsemen of immorality: abortion, gays and pornography. In the struggle against this, we have emphasized the need to oppose censorship. We have also-if appropriate or necessary-defended pornography. a freer, richer, sexuality cannot evolve by somebody (experts, feminists, socialists) legislating what liberating sex is, while censoring what falls beyond the practices so defined.
25. Girls Lean Back Everywhere
    The Law Of Obscenity And The Assault On Genius
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    De Grazia, an attorney and defender of First Amendment rights, chronicles the conflict between artistic expression and censorship. Details the struggles of authors, booksellers and publishers.
26. Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
27. Indonesia 1957-1958
    War and Pornography
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
28. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
29. The left and the Porn Wars
    A Case Study in Sexual Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Published in Who's on Top?: The Politics of Heterosexuality, edited by H. Buchbinder et al. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1987
30. Libraries, Erotica & Pornography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
31. The Morning After
    Sex, Fear, and Feminism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993   Published: 1994
    When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once signaled such strength and courage, now seemed lodged in a foundation of weakness and fear. At Harvard, and later as a graduate student at Princeton, Roiphe saw a thoroughly new phenomenon taking shape on campus: the emergence of a culture captivated by victimization, and of a new bedroom politics in the university, cloaked in outdated assumptions about the way men and women experience sex.
32. Obscenity exposed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
33. Opposing Censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    According to Ulli Diemer, it is dangerous to think that liberation - in this case, sexual liberation - can be promoted by repressive legislation and censorship.
    
34. Poles 'n holes: Working in the porn biz
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    Pornography worker Chaz Bufe on work, sexuality and censorship in America.
35. Porn can be good for you
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    While pornography can be dehumanising and exploitative, it can also be educative, liberating, empowering, fulfilling and immensely socially beneficial. It all depends on how it is made, who makes it, what it depicts and why it is being used.
36. Porn Gold
    Resource Type: Book
    
37. Porn, Women's Rights and the Left
    A Response to Gail Dines
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    I believe that government belongs in health, education, welfare, social services, environmental protection and transport; but I do not believe that it belongs in our bedrooms.
38. Pornography
    The Other Side
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
39. Pornography
    A brief submitted to the Commission D'Etude sur le Cinema et l'Audiovisuel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1982
    
40. Pornography in a Free Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    An examination of public policy debates about pornography in the United States in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
41. Pornography and the Sex Censors
    A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
42. QSM - Books, Magazines and Comics
    Resource Type: Website
    Books, DVDs, magazines, and comics on SM, dominance & submission, erotic pain, and related fetishes.
43. Queer Progress
    From Homophobia to Homonationalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
44. Radical Digressions 1
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1979
    
45. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
46. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Kendrick looks at the idea of pornography since the word was coined a century and a half ago, concentrating less on the books and pictures that have instigated battles over "pornography" than on what people thought and felt about them.
47. SexSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
48. The Sexuality of Men
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    Essays on aspects of male sexuality.
49. Socialist Register 1993
    Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1993
    
50. A Story About Making a Sex Movie
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Politicians try to impose censorship by the back door, by imposing record-keeping obligations that are impossible to comply with.
51. Ten Thousand Roses
    The Making of a Feminist Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
52. Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied on Porn Habits as Part of Plan to Discredit 'Radicalizers'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document. The document, provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, identifies six targets, all Muslims, as "exemplars" of how "personal vulternabilities" can be learned through electronic surveillance, and then exploited to undermine a target's credibility, reputation and authority.
53. The Trouble With Billionaires 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
54. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    How to push for social change without breaking the law.
55. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1962
    Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
56. Women Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    Essays which argue that women have nothing to gain by allying themselves with anti-feminist forces and mainstream politicians. The contributors say that censorhip will be used against feminists who seek deep and permanent changes in the status quo.
57. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
58. The X-Rated Free Market
    On Pornography, Royal Spermatozoa and the Free Market
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Is the pornography market the only free one? The question might seem provocative. Or a gross oversimplification. But it might also shed some light on certain points, namely those related with the political shaping of markets.

Experts on Pornografie in the Sources Directory

1. AMEA - World Museum of Erotic Art
2. Connexions
3. Museum of Sex