The Regulation of Sex-Themed Visual Imagery ─ From Clay Tablets to Tablet Computers

Lyombe Eko carries out an historical and cultural survey of the regulation of visual depictions of explicit human sexual conduct from their earliest appearance on the clay tablets of the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in ancient Mesopotamia, to the tablet computers of Silicon Valley. The Regulation of Sex-Themed Visual Imagery analyzes the contemporary problem of the applicability of the human right of freedom of expression to explicit imagery in the face of societal interests in the regulation of representations of human sexuality.

Lyombe Eko is Associate Professor at the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of New Media, Old Regimes: Case Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy (2012) and American Exceptionalism, the French Exception and Digital Media Law (2013). His research has been published in numerous journals, including Communication Law and Policy, Communications and the Law, and the International Journal of Communication Law and Policy. Dr. Eko has served as a journalist and producer at the African Broadcasting Union (URTNA) in Nairobi, Kenya, and at Cameroon Radio and Television Corporation. He has produced several video documentaries on African topics. Three of them won honorable mention at festivals in Germany and Canada and are part of the holdings of several American and Canadian university libraries.