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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Organized by a group called Women Against Pornography, this unlikely female sortie is only one tactic in a new feminist cause: an all-out war against pornography. The rationale is that pornography is a significant factor in the nation's disturbing rate of sexual violence against women and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Women's War on Porn | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

No longer. Feminist organizations across the country have been waging local antiporn skirmishes of their own. In Seattle the chapter of Women Against Violence Against Women campaigned successfully to get Paramount Pictures to remove objectionable ads for its sexploitation film Bloodline. In Minneapolis earlier this month, some 4,500 women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Women's War on Porn | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

As commendable as the feminists' objectives may seem, critics worry about their methods, explaining that they could undermine free speech, encourage the suppression of ideas and possibly lead to book burnings. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz: "Women who would have the government ban sexist material are the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Women's War on Porn | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Perhaps the basic question is whether pornography really incites men to violence against women, or does the opposite-lets them sublimate their aggressive sexual fantasies in a relatively harmless way. The 1970 report of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography implied that it did indeed serve as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Women's War on Porn | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

An escape from four walls is the street musicians' major incentive. "I just wanted to do music without any kind of reviews, sales pitches, verbiage or anything-just music," says John Thomas, who plays folk music and Bach on his six-string guitar for strolling office workers in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Bands of Summer | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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