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6 January 2012updated 27 Sep 2015 1:46am

It’s time to abolish the obscenity law

Obscenity law robs us of agency. And it tells us that we are depraved.

By Nichi Hodgson

“Do they even HAVE obscenity trials any more?!’ my old editor at the Erotic Review exclaimed, when I told him I was live-tweeting from one this week (read David Allen Green on the not guilty verdict here).

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