5 Feet of Fury

The porn you will always have with you: my latest at PJMedia

Looks at L.A.’s mandatory condom law, and back at the history of the anti-porn movement:

Fast forward to 2012 and the once ubiquitous anti-porn movement might as well have never existed. (…)

Video may or may not have killed the radio star, but the internet murdered old fashioned, easy to burn and ban VHS tapes and magazines. (Canada’s Red Hot Video shops survived the Wimmin’s Fire Brigade, but what’s left of the chain is finally closing down because its business model is no longer viable. Just ask Blockbuster.)

(Porn, in turn, spearheaded many features of the internet we take for granted.)

Having survived attacks by straight women thirty years ago, the porn industry now has a new and unlikely activist enemy: gay men.