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...Nonetheless, after reading some of the inevitably dry books on reading lists, Allyn makes liberal use of favorite four letter words, includes personal accounts of different people having sex in different positions, and speaks of the evolution of masturbation. Allyn is verbally pornographic at times; in his frequent allusions to D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, one gets the sense that Allyn wishes us to see him as the next Laurence, crusader in literature of the sexually explicit. He includes such passages as: "There were people fucking and thrashing all over. They'd sort of roll over...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: History of Porn, With Subtitles | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...tendency to make these claims reveals the book's flaw-Make Love, Not War is too ambitious. Allyn cannot hope to answer every claim about the sexual revolution, nor can he describe every movement. Yet he believes he can. The punishment for this inflated sense of purpose is these claims, too humorous to ishment for this inflated sense of purpose is these claims, too humorous to actually enliven the book. One especially tasty bit of stupidity reads, "American nudists had long been fighting their own actually enliven the book. One especially tasty bit of stupidity reads, "American nudists had long...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: History of Porn, With Subtitles | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...However, Allyn is at times intellectually dangerous, especially if one reads the book without an understanding of American history and a decent command of the history of western civilization. Allyn also tells us that St. Augustine's sexual repression is the cause of the Catholic Church's current birth control policy. Allyn attributes the reform movements in the 1830s and 1840s to a crusade against sexuality in society. Allyn claims the actual intention of the graham cracker was to "soak up men's sexual desires," giving an entirely different interpretation of smores. Shockingly, Allyn claims the only cause of abolition...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: History of Porn, With Subtitles | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...Allyn distorts important cultural and constitutional events, from undermining Broadway's creative period of the '60s and '70s to distorting Supreme Court cases. He claims that Hair, the Broadway show, existed only to test the limits of censorship. He also corrupts important historical events, such as the introduction of the Pill and Roe v. Wade. He never mentions the feminist critique of the Pill, as a pharmaceutical example of male control of the reproductive nature of women, and claims that Roe never knew that she could not have an abortion after the third trimester, a fallacy according to the legal...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: History of Porn, With Subtitles | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...Still, to his credit, Allyn gives some important background on movements that receive little historical attention from mainstream readers. He gives a thorough discussion of the gay liberation movement, explaining its hypocrisy with regard to lesbians, who failed to feel included until years after the Stonewall raid. He also addresses sexuality within political movements-including a discussion of male Black Panthers and their desire to "fuck as many white women as possible." His most academic discussion in the book discusses the hypocrisy of the feminist movement. While his critiques of the movement are not original, his summary view of problems...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: History of Porn, With Subtitles | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

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