Supreme Court gives Trump a wave of victories in final week : NPR

The Supreme Court term has given the Trump administration a series of major wins in the final blockbuster week of its term. We rounded up the final decisions in one place, with more information and links to read the full decisions and our full coverage...

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/27/g-s1-74738/scotus-decisions-birthright-aca 

 

Liberal justices slam majority decision on porn age verification as ‘at war with itself’

"But what if Texas could do better — what if Texas could achieve its interest without so interfering with adults' constitutionally protected rights in viewing the speech [the Texas law] covers?" she asked…

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5373522-supreme-court-upholds-texas-porn-law/ 

 

The hilarious implications of the Supreme Court’s new porn decision, in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton | Vox

Thus, if Texas wants to apply this law to Pornhub, some poor judge will have to watch much of the content on that website to determine if it has literary, artistic, political, or scientific value — and whatever that judge decides, their decision will be appealed to other judges who will have to engage in the same exercise. 

 Justice Thomas and his colleagues, in other words, should probably install a popcorn machine in the Supreme Court building, because they've just signed themselves up to recreate the humiliating movie days of the Court's past…

https://www.vox.com/scotus/418065/supreme-court-porn-free-speech-paxton-clarence-thomas

 

Supreme Court Says States Can Limit Access To Porn | HuffPost Latest News

"It is not, contra the majority, like having to flash ID to enter a club," Kagan wrote. "It is turning over information about yourself and your viewing habits—respecting speech many find repulsive—to a website operator, and then to ... who knows? The operator might sell the information; the operator might be hacked or subpoenaed."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-porn-texas_n_683f057ee4b018c3beee0d74 

 

GOP Introduces Bill To Criminalize Pornography | HuffPost Latest News

One critic said Republican Sen. Mike Lee's bill's definition of "obscenity" is so broad that "Game of Thrones" would not be protected by the First Amendment...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-lee-pornography-crime-project-2025_n_6824b8eee4b021b5064a974d 

GOP Senator Introduces New Porn Ban

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMc9E-gJsys

 

Elon Musk Staffer BUSTED In Terrifying Private Website Revelations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Y6T1-ZDCg

The Online Porn Free-for-All Is Coming to an End - The Atlantic

Three decades into the internet era, the Supreme Court finally appears ready to uphold age-verification laws...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/supreme-court-online-pornography/681397/ 

 

“The Porn Fixation”(Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast; It's in the Code Episode #128)

Why are conservative, high-control Christians in America so fixated on pornography? 

Why do they think it represents an apocalyptic menace, threatening to destroy the institution of the family, the church, and society itself? 

What is it about the subculture of high-control religion that explains this perspective in a time when pornography use is more widespread and mainstream, and less taboo, than it has ever been? 

Listen in this week as Dan offers his thoughts on these issues.

Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/its-in-the-code-ep-128-the-porn-fixation/

Let’s Talk About Pornography. No, Seriously. - The New York Times

In February, Dr. Bothe was an author of a paper that found that some types of pornography could affect the sexual well-being of viewers. The study, a survey of 827 young adults, found that people who watched passionate or romantic pornography reported higher sexual satisfaction in their relationships, whereas watching "power, control and rough-sex pornography was associated with lower sexual satisfaction." (The study also noted that the passionate, romantic and multipartner material was more widely viewed than the harder-core categories.)…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/science/pornography-adolescents-teenagers.html

Project 2025’s ‘unhinged’ wish list: Criminalize porn, ban birth control

Project 2025 is a “wish list of a bunch of fringe, far-right policy proposals that I think many voters would be really horrified to learn about,” says Chris Hayes. For example, the agenda says, "Pornography should be outlawed,” and “the people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkeGixHvb4k

Oklahoma State Sen. Dusty Deevers Seeks To Outlaw Porn So You Can Give Your life to Jesus

What happens when you elect a Christian nationalist pastor like Dusty Deevers to a seat in the Oklahoma state Senate? You get lectured about how pornography is a tool of Satan and must therefore be outlawed so that people "can be set free" and give their lives to Jesus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcuwPTjjxwQ

RWW News: Oklahoma State Sen. Dusty Deevers Is Waging A Holy Crusade To Outlaw Pornography - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRcncOuYSBk

Republican CRASHES AND BURNS As Bombshell Ban Unveiled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G53Vc_wCkFk

Republicans will do anything to ban books, even saying they cause porn addiction

One woman's bizarre claim about a Scholastic book featuring a single kiss is part of a coordinated assault on US free speech…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/09/republican-book-bans-censorship-free-speech

In Florida, parents are always right – even when they think a Michelangelo is porn | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Bishop, by the way, denies that Carrasquilla was solely forced out because she showed the kids Michelangelo's David. He wasn't able to fully explain why she was forced out, however, but in his interview with Slate he reiterated his idea that the parents are always right. "The rights of parents, that trumps the rights of kids," he told Slate. "Teachers are the experts? Teachers have all the knowledge? Are you kidding me? I know lots of teachers that are very good, but to suggest they are the authorities, you're on better drugs than me." …

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/25/florida-school-principal-fired-michelangelo-porn-desantis-law

 

Florida principal Hope Carrasquilla ousted after Michelangelo 'David' art lesson upset parents - The Washington Post

A Florida charter school principal said she was forced to resign this week after some parents complained about their sixth-grade students being shown images of Michelangelo's "David" statue in class, with one parent believing the art lesson on the Renaissance masterpiece amounted to pornographic material...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/24/florida-principal-michelangelo-david-parents/

New 'sextortion' documentary includes disputed and overhyped claims : NPR

The film focuses on the dangers of trusting strangers online. But it appears that law enforcement officials and other experts featured in the film were unaware of the filmmakers' past work giving a platform to a conspiracy theorist. 

Experts on child sex abuse and human trafficking tell NPR that the film could leave viewers with an incomplete and exaggerated portrait of this threat to minors. They fear the film's portrayal of the crime could hinder harm reduction efforts by skewing public perception and even fueling conspiracy theories about rampant child victimization… 

In the film, he compares narcotics addictions to pornography addiction and claims that the human brain develops a tolerance to sexual images that may lead to the consumption of illegal forms of pornography like "rape porn or the child pornography." 

That claim is unsubstantiated and "harmful," says Nicole Prause, a senior statistician at UCLA who studies neuroscience and sexual psychophysiology as well as alcohol and opiate addiction. She explains that addiction to narcotics works very differently in the brain than other compulsive behaviors. They are different problems that require different treatments… 

In Sextortion, Doan goes on to describe what he calls "virtual autism" caused by overuse of digital media, and he claims that by 2025, "scientists and physicians project" that 1 in 2 children will be diagnosed with autism. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that in 2018, the prevalence of autism was about 1 in 44 children…

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1160731493/how-law-enforcement-is-promoting-a-troubling-documentary-about-sextortion

What parents and educators need to know about teens’ pornography and sexting experiences at school

Without widespread comprehensive sex education in the U.S., young adults have identified pornography as a primary source of sex education. However, the pornography that teens have the easiest access to – tube-site pornography – tends to portray more sexual aggression, degradation of women and people of color and lack of sexual consent...

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7652103633459993609/6043873390821602032

Republicans take aim at risque jokes and romance novels with anti-sex bills | Republicans | The Guardian

In Texas, a new bill requiring age verification on websites with pornographic content defines images of the female breast "below the top of the areola" as porn, potentially hitting at business advertisements. In West Virginia, a bill outlawing all sexually oriented businesses is on the docket, with a definition that includes art studios with nude models and wrestling arenas. In South Carolina a bill would criminalize using "profane language" related to "sexual or excretory organs or activities" in front of minors during performances. The punishment? Up to a decade in prison. 

Some bills define porn so broadly that anatomy textbooks or sex education websites would meet them...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/republican-anti-sex-legislation-state-level