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Today, everything is available, to everyone, at any time. Every deviant desire, dark fantasy and sordid dream can be realized, at a reasonable price. Forget "normalizing homosexuality"--something the Right has been worrying over since the advent of gay liberation. Today, the Internet and DirecTV are normalizing everything, from group sex to bestiality to darker things that decency forbids mentioning. And as for pedophilia--why, any erotic website worth its salt promises links to images of the "barely legal," "young teen sluts," and all the rest. Today, Nabokov's Humbert would need not be a tragic figure; instead, he could...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: The Pornographic Revolution | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...pornography that is not "deviant" or "perverse," the stuff that supposedly caters to normal, red-blooded, all-American types looking for a little heterosexual stimulation--well, even there we have come a long way from the days of Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe. Playboy at least pretended to be high-class, offering "erotic art" to "gentlemen." Today's on-line stuff has none of those gauzy illusions. Gone is romance, gone is art, gone even are flattering camera angles. What we are left with is stripped-down sex, prostitution in all but name, with women captured in the most degrading...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: The Pornographic Revolution | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

When parents of a gay child hear the words error and deviant in the same sentence as gay, it's easy for me as a mother to imagine what conclusions they draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Counterpoint | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

...When parents of a gay child hear the words "error" and "deviant" in the same sentence as "gay," it's easy for me as a mother to imagine what conclusions they draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter: A Gay and Lesbian Organization Responds to Dr. Laura | 7/9/2000 | See Source »

...Arts First weekend is highlighted by controversy surrounding a performance by Marc R. Talusan '97, the "Dancing Deviant." Due to the -show's sexually explicit content, the Office for the Arts denies Talusan funding...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis and Melissa K. Crocker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: What Was News | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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