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Botes pushes the edges of provocation with his erotic drawings

Art and graphics

Conrad Botes makes a comment on censorship, while Zapiro has his finger on the pulse as usual

Joshua Kipkorir from Kenya. (Image: RFI)

Why gay porn appeals to women

Heterosexual porn displays women ‘being fucked’ by men and it’s demeaning

Porn that shows men and women as sexual collaborators rather than men as conquerors could do a great deal to change people’s perceptions about themselves and their sex lives (John McCann/M&G)

Feminist porn answers a need

Women viewers are increasing and that could help to usher in the sex revolution we are hankering after

Helping your learner to use Internet wisely

Porn on pupils’ tablets is akin to a virus

"While visiting schools, I have observed one common behaviour – pupils storing porn videos on their tablets"

CRISPR technology is a relatively new and powerful tool for editing genomes. It allows researchers to easily alter DNA sequences and modify gene function. (File photo: Edgard Garrido, Reuters)

Justice department denies links to Brazzers porn website

The department also said that the keyword “brazzers” had not appeared in any subject line in the emails received in the department’s database.

Don’t do porn if you’re married because you’ll probably end up divorced

Research backs up this finding — but it also revealed that young people are crap at matrimony.

Stevenson Gallery curates SEX in the city

The SEX exhibition attempts to unpack sex through a timeline of events that took place in South Africa in the past decade.

A video of entertainer Faith Nketsi having sex went from Instagram to the world. A Bill proposes punishment for those who put images online without the person’s consent.

Faith Nketsi could have her revenge the legal way

The leak of a video featuring Queen Twerk having sex has legal ramifications. Content shared online could make one an accessory to revenge porn crime.

Playboy drops nude pictures, can’t compete in digital pornography age

Playboy magazine will stop publishing "passe" pictures of fully nude women, as part of a new strategy to stem falling circulation.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The undemocratic meeting of porn and politics

By defying the supreme court, India’s ruling party has shown its contempt for the laws of the land and the constitutional rights of others.

Indian authorities want to prevent porn becoming a social nuisance.

India blocks more than 800 sites in web porn crackdown

Sudden blanket ban on websites considered a ‘social nuisance’ is met with anger online and triggers debate on censorship and freedom.

That’s no moon: Porn gives teens unhelpful expectations

Sex fallacies must be laid to rest

The school curriculum doesn’t cover having ‘good’ sex, so the youth consult their phones.

Competition head denies resigning following porn scandal

Following claims Shan Ramburuth spent thousands of state funds on porn, the Competition Commission head has denied resigning over the allegations.

Ten things about porn in the USA

We bring you 10 things you may or may not have known about the porn industry in the US.

Tamara Rojo

Porn, pliés and pirouettes

Since Tamara Rojo’s appoint­ment as artistic director of the English National Ballet, the former ballerina has proved a natural at working the media.

Topless activists of the Ukrainian feminist movement Femen protest against porn industry during Paris’s eroticism fair on March 23 2013 in Le Bourget.

Porn and morals: Where does the truth lie?

Icasa is wrong in its interpretation of what makes us accept or reject something. The issue of dignity and abuse is not a science, but a morality.

TopTV gets go-ahead to air porn

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has granted pay channel Top TV rights to broadcast pornography, the regulator has said.

Customers can purchase the DStv Streama on Takealot using a 100% voucher valid for three months, according to MultiChoice

Naked truth about porn on television

The usual logical fallacies have been rolled out at Icasa to prevent TopTV from screening adult content.

Porn is like meat: Ask how it is made before consuming it

On the issue of porn, Tanya Gold is with the Saudi Arabians: the freedom to watch a woman gag on a penis is not one she cherishes.

Cash-strapped TopTV opens pornography case

Pay-TV broadcaster On Digital Media, owner of TopTV, has set out a case in which it has argued that it should be allowed to broadcast X-rated content.