A United Nations committee is circulating a draft document that could bring in a global ban on the sexual depiction of minors in drawings and cartoons, including lolicon...
Category: Criminal justice
Defending Lolita from censorship
Lolita was never officially banned in the United States, although it was banned in France where it was first published in 1955, and in several other countries. Yet...
The intersection of civil rights and child protection
Prostasia is a child protection organization that seeks to harmonize the tension that is often perceived between effective public policy and constitutional rights. When informed by evidence, the...
How the politics of child protection gives us laws that harm children
As a child, I remember how terrified I was by a rerun of the 1956 movieĀ Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which the lead character attempts to...
Is there a sex-positive approach to teen sexting?
It seems like not a week goes by without yet another news story about the prosecution of...