Paradox surrounded the flourishing Sexual Revolution of the 1970’s; women were gaining equality while economic and social forces took shape: Playboy magazine, pornography, suburban wife-swapping and group sex. Political conservatism and Nixon were in while a simultaneous feminist backlash was brewing. (1)
Did feminism become commercialized? Was pornography exploiting or advancing the cause of feminists everywhere? Theaters showing pornographic movies were a common site unlike today. Pornography stores and theaters are commonly hidden off lonesome highways or disguised as a “video” stores in more metropolitan areas.
Did feminism become commercialized? Was pornography exploiting or advancing the cause of feminists everywhere? Theaters showing pornographic movies were a common site unlike today. Pornography stores and theaters are commonly hidden off lonesome highways or disguised as a “video” stores in more metropolitan areas.
President Johnson appointed a commission to study the effects of pornography in the late 1960's but the Report on Commission on Obscenity and Pornography was released in 1970 during Nixon's presidency. It stated that there was no corroborating evidence tying pornography to social detriment. (2) The President blatantly rejected the report's findings and declared on October 24, 1970 in an official statement that "smut" would face national regulations. (3)
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This tape from 1972 is a discussion between Chief Justice Burger and Nixon regarding the pending Miller v. California obscenity case. Listen from roughly 1:55 to 3:21. Nixon talks like a such a righteous dickhead throughout. Nonetheless the porn industry should have picked up on his line, "My box is as clean as it can be" and used it in some fashion.
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The Who: "Pictures of Lily"
Just take a guess about the subject matter
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The Who: "Pictures of Lily"
Just take a guess about the subject matter
(1) John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1988), pgs. 301-360.
(2) No Writer Attributed, "Nixon's Rejection of Porno Report Draws Criticism," The Harvard Crimson, October 26, 1970, http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1970/10/26/nixons-rejection-of-porno-report-draws/#
(3) John Woolley and Gerard Peters, "Richard Nixon, President of the United States, 381 -Statement about the Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography," The American Presidency Project, October 24, 1970, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2759
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