Pornography and the European Convention on Human Rights
I'm pleased to say that my article 'Pornography and the European Convention on Human Rights' has been published in the academic journal Porn Studies.
Porn Studies is an innovative new journal, edited by Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith, and is the first scholarly periodical dedicated to the study of pornography.
In this, its third issue, the editors have assembled a collection of five articles that focus on the regulation of pornography.
The editors, in their Editorial to the issue, write:
The ‘need’ for regulation [of pornography] has been argued elsewhere and is not the primary focus
in this issue. Instead our contributors look to the current state of affairs in particular
locales. Our first double issue was a bumper one, in comparison this issue contains
just five articles and they are long – exceeding our usual word count – but the nature
of their discussions, in laying out the particular interests in regulation or legal
precedents meant that longer pieces were necessary to detail the discursive
constructions of the problems of porn and its regulation. Our five articles examine
the performances of regulation which are local, national and transnational in scope,
they examine the discursive constructions of zoning in Albuquerque; the very micro
deliberations and justifications of the UK case of regulating Video on Demand; the prohibitive yet also productive nature of classification requirements in Australia; the
historical and contemporary arguments over pornography in Iceland; and the ways
in which access to or production of pornography are interpreted by the European
Court of Human Rights.
My article examines the ways in which the Court and former Commission have dealt with complaints relating to pornography, and pays specific attention to ECHR jurisprudence under Articles 3, 8 and 10.
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