Jerry Barnett

Jerry Barnett is a technologist, author, and campaigner. His book Porn Panic! documents recent moral panics against free expression that have arisen on the identitarian Left.

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How Social Justice Killed Anti-Racism

One of the early signs of trouble for the British anti-racism movement was a tweet sent by Lee Jasper in April 2013, in which he declared that black people are incapable of being racist, and offered to publicly debate anybody who disagreed. I offered to debate him, as did a

Jerry Barnett

9 Feb 2022 · 11 min read

Guns, Germs, and Steel is a Powerful Anti-Racist Book. So Why Doesn’t the Left Love It?

In the aftermath of the Holocaust and the atrocities committed by European empires, the Western world awoke to the horrors that humans are capable of committing against those they perceived to be inferior.

Jerry Barnett

3 Oct 2021 · 14 min read

The War on Porn: Cancel Culture on Steroids

OnlyFans was given a huge boost by the pandemic. Many sex workers, faced with the sudden loss of their regular incomes, and stuck at home with time on their hands, flocked to the platform and built new streams of income.

Jerry Barnett

6 Sep 2021 · 12 min read

The Ugly History of Rape Panics

As sexual violence was reaching historic lows, the narrative was demanding the opposite. The definition of sexual violence began to be broadened, and so the numbers grew.

Jerry Barnett

22 Apr 2021 · 11 min read

The Moral Panic over 'Sexualisation'

I regularly found myself on national TV and radio, opposing the idea that the state should act to stop teenagers accessing sexual material.

Jerry Barnett

16 Oct 2020 · 12 min read

The Price of Sex

The total value of the sex trade could be said to be the value of the net transfer of wealth from men to women.

Jerry Barnett

14 Nov 2019 · 11 min read

There is No ‘Gay Gene,’ but Sexuality is Affected by Many Genes of Small Effect

Day by day, as genetic science advances, it becomes ever clearer that all psychological traits are genetically influenced.

Jerry Barnett

14 Sep 2019 · 4 min read

Last Days at Hot Slit—A Review

Reading this collection is recommended—because, while feminists still generally keep Dworkin at arm’s length, the modern movement contains far more of her than they care to admit.

Jerry Barnett

15 May 2019 · 14 min read