Sex not Seggs – in a censored digital landscape, erotic commentary is freer on the printed page
Lucy Roeber, director of the relaunched Erotic Review—a 30-year-old publication focused on erotic commentary and discourse—examines systemic censorship faced by sex-positive media in digital spaces. Following Meta’s 2025 block-listing of the magazine’s website for alleged pornographic content, Roeber interrogates the mechanisms and gatekeepers enforcing such restrictions while exploring how print publishing offers relative freedom from algorithmic suppression. She documents how financial infrastructure (payment processors, hosting platforms) systematically obstructs ventures in sexual discourse, forcing reliance on analogue distribution despite pressure to scale online. The piece frames digital censorship as both a business obstacle and a broader cultural issue affecting medical, activist, wellness, and artistic spheres engaging with sexuality. Roeber contextualizes this within contemporary debates on content moderation, corporate power over speech, and alternative models of cultural production in a heavily regulated online landscape.
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