Overview of content related to 'data' http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/taxonomy/term/15/all?article-type=&term=&organisation=&project=&author=john%20burnside&issue= RSS feed with Ariadne content related to specified tag en Burnside Writes http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue7/burnside <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue7/burnside#author1">John Burnside</a> on pornography and the Internet.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>With elections approaching, there has been much talk about morality. By morality, I mean the peculiarly British fascination with sex, from Virginia Bottomley's attempts to prevent satellite stations broadcasting explicit sexual material, to a renewed interest in the views of Mary Whitehouse. In one sense a concern with the commodification of sex is A Good Thing - though I, for one, would worry if the power to decide what we may or may not view resided in the hands of a government minister or a self-appointed censor with her own, rather peculiar agenda.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue7/burnside" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue7 regular column john burnside archives data search technology Sun, 19 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000 editor 259 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk