Dr Kate Lister

Dr Kate Lister is a lecturer at Leeds Trinity University, a historian, writer, and blogger. She is the author of ‘A Curious History of Sex’, and in 2017, Kate won the Sexual Freedom Award, Publicist of the Year. She is the curator of the online research project, Whores of Yore and you can follow her on Twitter at @WhoresofYore, click on Twitter link in profile.

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Online censorship, censoring our sex

17th June 2020June 20202020-09-21T12:42:06+00:00 21/09/2020

The West has a very long history of censoring sex. In 1580 for example, English politician William Lambarde drafted the first bill to ban “licentious” and “hurtful… books, pamphlets, ditties, songs, and other works that promote the art of “lascivious ungodly love”. 440 years later and the struggle between freedom of expression and government censorship shows no sign of...