Word: erotica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many years the major objections to pornography have come from conservative groups which call for a repression of all sexuality. Advocates of personal sexual freedom, not wanting to censor erotica, could not censor pornography. They feared creating a tool which would be inevitably used against other progressive groups. For example, pornography statutes are quickly extended to nonviolent gay and lesbian publications...
...Sandstone often in the past ... and his book-in-progress had already received inordinate amounts of publicity ... Most of what had been written about Talese in the press, however, had been jocularly presented, strongly suggesting that his reportorial technique as a 'participating observer' in the world of erotica-his patronage of massage parlors, his dark afternoons in X-rated cinemas, his intimate familiarity with swing clubs and orgiasts across the land-was an ingenious ploy on his part to indulge his carnality and to be unfaithful ... While Talese had never openly refuted this notion, assuming that any attempt...