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'It's like the State entering our bedrooms and minds'

The passing of a new law criminalising the possession of extreme pornography is about to take the �thought police� out of the realm of fiction. By Brian McNair

The shame once associated with looking at dirty pictures has fallen away since porn moved into the mainstream, around the time of Madonna's Sex book. With the rise of the internet there can be few adults in the UK who have not seen some porn, somewhere.