Abstract
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the 50th anniversary of the Longford Report. Published at a time when other countries had legalized or were planning to liberalize laws regarding the publication and distribution of pornographic materials, the report is often viewed as a failed attempt at policymaking. Drawing on extensive ethnohistorical research conducted over a six-year period, which includes engagement with archival documents, media reportage and the published report, I show how the Longford Report inadvertently had a significant impact on Britain’s hardcore pornography trade and suggest that the activities of moral entrepreneurs like Longford can have a lasting effect on how pornography is controlled.
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