Word: antismut
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...dance their eternal lambada to the frantic beat of the electro-media. In Skin's world, come-ons for sex chat compete for TV time with pictures of abducted girls on Amber Alerts. In Skin's world, D.A. Thomas Roam (Kevin Anderson) runs his re-election campaign on an antismut crusade, while his target, Larry Goldman (Ron Silver), quips, "If the voters are so much against porn, why do I live in a 52,000-sq.-ft. mansion?" (And both men are powerless to control the hormones of their children, who meet and fall in love.) In Skin's world...
Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine, certainly has not forgotten Keating either. In the 1970s and early '80s, Keating became an antismut crusader, attacking Flynt and winning an appointment from Richard Nixon to an antipornography commission. Flynt told TIME, "The Keatings of this world are the real perverts. You can't dismiss him as someone who just wanted to take people's money; he's one of the most dangerous men in America because he is completely intolerant of others and believes he is always right...
...access to them. SurfWatch of Los Altos, California, is one of a growing number of computer programs designed to answer a fundamental concern of parents, educators and even employers: How can porn be prevented from coming into computers? Fearful that Congress will try to stifle cyberspace with overly broad antismut laws, computer hackers and civil libertarians are promoting such desktop remedies as a way to keep censorship where they think it belongs--in the home...
...Brandy, babe. Hello law-and-order on the electronic frontier. "In its simplest form, we are taking the antismut and antipornography laws that have long been in place with the telephone and the mails, and applying them to the information superhighway," says Senator Jim Exon, the Nebraska Democrat who sponsored the decency act. "I want to make the information superhighway as safe as possible for kids...
Lady Antonia, a lithe blonde, has been married since 1956 to Tory M.P. Hugh Fraser. Her father is the Earl of Longford, a sturdy Roman Catholic peer and tireless moralizer whose antismut campaigns have earned him the nickname "Lord Porn." She is an avid collector-of white dresses (she has 100), and of personages literary, theatrical and political. Her companions have included Author Norman Mailer, Actor Robert Stephens and Lord Lambton, the Tory M.P. who quit Parliament last year after being photographed in bed with a call girl...