Today, Terry Schilling of the American Principles Project debates Hall of Fame adult entertainer Brandi Love in our latest Newsweek “Debate of the Week.” We hope you enjoy the exchange.
Josh Hammer is Newsweek opinion editor, a syndicated columnist and a research fellow at the Edmund Burke Foundation.
Its growth over the last few decades has been staggering. From 1988 to 2005, the number of pornographic movies produced each year rose from 1,300 to 13,000. Then came the Internet revolution. By 2019, the web’s top pornography site reported 1.36 million hours of new content uploaded that year—more than a day’s worth every 10 minutes.
Matt Walsh, a Daily Wire columnist and a culture warrior if there ever were one, wants the state to “have a role” in regulating adult content. Sohrab Ahmari, op-ed editor of the New York Post, insists that adult content “isn’t free speech—on the web or anywhere.” Newsweek’s own opinion editor, Josh Hammer, has lamented at First Things that “today’s self-proclaimed liberty-minded ‘conservative’ vanguard defends licentiousness by invoking the mantle of freedom.”
