Restoring Obscenity Regulation in an Internet Age

Restoring Obscenity Regulation: Lessons From America’s Founding Era

By Adam Candeub via The Daily Signal | July 07, 2026 Americans born after the mid-1990s have lived their entire lives in a world awash with hardcore pornography. Never has so much pornography been so available to so many at so little cost. Our laws leave much pornography effectively unregulated. Our technology, especially smartphones, brings portable, private porn shops to everyone’s phone. Like today, there were no prosecutions for obscene libe…

It's Time to Enforce Laws Against Pornography

The internet delivers an endless stream of hardcore pornography into American homes and pockets through laptops and mobile phones. Porn once confined to seedy bookstores is now ubiquitous, free, and increasingly violent. Most youngsters, especially boys, encounter hardcore pornography before they can drive. Marriages strain under its influence. The sexual dance is compromised by suspicion...

Restoring Obscenity Regulation in an Internet Age

IntroductionAmericans born after the mid-1990s have lived their entire lives in a world awash with hardcore pornography. Never has so much pornography been so available to so many at so little cost and with so little effort. Our laws leave pornography effectively unregulated. Our technology—including especially smartphones—brings portable, private porn shops to everyone’s phone and mostly free of charge. Political scientist David Lowenthal, writ…