Sex and the Internet in Italy

It was almost 40 years ago – 1976 – when the Supreme Court of Italy ordered the producer of Bernardo Bertolucci’s movie Last Tango in Paris to burn the negative of the film because it was considered pornographic and scandalous. Those times are over, and now legislation in Italy concerning sexually explicit material is in line with other progressive European countries, with only child pornography remaining a crime. Despite this, Italy is lagging behind most other western European Union (EU) countries