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Index
Note: Page numbers in italics indicate figures.
Abbate, Janet, 25
Adams, Lily, 174
Adolescence, 42–43
Adult Empire, 151
Adult entertainers, 152–154
Adult Video News, 151
Alexander, Eden, 167
Allerton, Colin, 151
Alliance Defending Freedom, 141
Alphas, 35, 39, 45
Alt-porn, 155–163
Alt-right, 29, 47–48, 74, 76
exploitation of FOSTA-SESTA by, 171–174
Amazon, 134–135
denials of service for sex workers by, 167–168
Mechanical Turk, 87, 93, 95, 96
American Bankers Association, 170
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 112, 175–176
American Libraries, 113
American Library Association, 113
American Medical Association, 39
American Psychological Association, 75
American Renaissance, 45
Anatomical sex, 36–37, 75
Anderson, Michael, 16
Andrejevic, Mark, 6
Anglocentrism, 87
Anonymous, 32
Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance (ACRO), 28
Anti-pornography movement, 4, 7–8, 59–60. See also Pornography
alt-right and conservative groups and, 29–30
carceral feminism and, 22
Christian conservatives and, 4, 18–20, 27, 52–59, 159, 177
collateral damage of, 9–12
