Hitting the Books: Social media's long, pointless war against sex on the internet

From the moment that people started getting nasty with Johannes Gutenberg's newfangled printing press, sexually explicit content has led the way towards wide-scale adoption of mass communication technologies. But with every advance in methodology has invariably come a backlash -- a moral panic here, a book burning there, the constant uncut threat of mass gun violence -- aiming to suppress that expression. Now, given the things I saw Googling "sexually explicit printing press," dear reader, I can...