ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on pornography as a predominant example of the relationship between censorship law's regulatory power and media. It examines the terrain of censorship and its history in order to locate spatialized concerns, particularly in the creation of the abstract notion of the community' and the regulatory fortressing which occurs around moral laws. This investigation involves a discussion of the connection between state censorship and the role of regulatory communities' such as anti-pornography feminism, anti-censorship feminism, civil libertarians and queer activists and intersects with law and cyberspace governance issues in the context of Internet censorship. Censorship produces sexual space which in turn produces censorship. Self regulation is an important contributing factor within the censorship discourse and can have surprising consequences. The regulation of adult videos has unusual consequences in relation to corporate culture. Erotic cultures are spatialized, particularly along spatial distinctions between public and private, night and day.
