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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/6/2022
Conservatives Attacking Pornography Carry on History of Politicized Moral Panics
by Kelsy Burke
Calls by J.D. Vance and other conservative politicians for bans on pornography echo the tactics and the failures of America's first anti-obscenity crusader, Anthony Comstock.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
9/6/2021
Who Lost the Feminist Movement's "Sex Wars"?
by Amia Srinivasan
As a new book reconsiders the debates among feminists over sexuality and pornography by emphasizing the role of liberalism in reducing the radical demands both sides made for the remaking of relations between men and women to narrow issues of law and civil liberties, that history resonates with current controversies about the place of trans women in the feminist movement.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/10/2021
Larry Flynt, Who Built a Porn Empire With Hustler, Dies at 78
"Mr. Flynt’s interpretation was simpler. 'If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me,' he said, 'then it will protect all of you. Because I’m the worst'."
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SOURCE: Publishers Weekly
4-11-18
An Anti-Trumper Evangelical Weighs in on Trump's True Believers
Historian John Fea on faith, fear, and politics.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
3-26-18
How evangelical support of Trump helped to bring pornography into the mainstream
by John Fea
The court evangelicals do not condone Trump’s behavior. But neither do they say they think that his indiscretions are in any way harmful to his presidency.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
3-10-18
Sex and power: Stormy Daniels and the female pioneers of the porn industry
Meet May Irwin, the Stormy Daniels of the Victorian era. And her pornographer, Thomas Edison.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5-9-13
Hugo Schwyzer: I Teach a College Class on How to Think and Talk About Pornography
Hugo Schwyzer teaches history and gender studies at Pasadena City College. He is co-author of Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir."What do you study in a 'porn class'?" I've gotten that question almost daily since "Navigating Pornography"—a humanities course I offer at Pasadena City College—received national attention in the aftermath of a controversial classroom visit in February by adult superstar James Deen. The queries have grown even more frequent since last week's widely covered announcement that Porn Studies, a new periodical devoted to the study of "cultural products and services designated as pornographic" will make its debut in 2014.
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No Kinky Porn, Please -- We're English
by Robin Lindley
Letícia Román in a publicity still for Russ Meyer's 1964 film adaptation of Fanny Hill. Actual illustrations from Fanny Hill are decidedly NSFW.In England, the eighteenth century was a time of questioning, exploration, scientific advances, and an expanded worldview -- the birth of modernity, according to some historians.This age of remarkable energy and innovation also saw an explosion of erotic literature that reflected dynamic social and cultural changes as it challenged the authority of Church and State, satirized the hypocritical, and explored the fantasies of its consumers.
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