Word: erotica
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...nearly every Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler ever published--660 anatomically repetitive issues. Even so, the cost seems high: $734,371, or more than $1,100 per issue. And the announced goal is fuzzy: "To lay the foundation for future studies on the possible influence, or lack of influence, of erotica/ pornography, with particular emphasis on issues of child exploitation." The Justice Department has retained Judith Reisman, a communications consultant, to head a staff of 19 researchers on the project. A broader study, involving more magazines, was started more than a year ago at a cost...
...Computer Erotica...
...door. Story, which was recently suppressed, became one of the first victims of China's newest and most novel political campaign. For the past month authorities have been waging a war to eliminate "spiritual pollution," a deliberately vague term that embraces every manner of bourgeois import from erotica to existentialism. According to Communist Party Propaganda Chief Deng Liqun, spiritual pollution includes "obscene, barbarous or reactionary materials, vulgar taste in artistic performances, indulgence in individualism" and statements that "run counter to the country's social system." Ostensibly aimed at those with a taste for capitalist pleasures, the purge...
...media representation of women and their mistreatment has been a prevailing feminist maxim for so long that it has assumed the aura of fact in some circles. Since the '60s there has been an open and often heated debate between people who are fearful of the deleterious effects of erotica and pornography on society and those who are more concerned about the dangers of censorship. The former point to, among other things, rape statistics in certain cities; while the latter point to, among other bits of evidence, the low crime rate and apparent boredom with the sex market among over...
Comic books, educators agree, have played a distressingly important role in lowering literary standards. Junzo Iwase, president of K.K. Bestsellers, a thriving Tokyo house, gave up publishing novels several years ago. His 100 annual titles range in subject matter from moneymaking to politics, from sports to erotica. Says Iwase: "Our readers are sarariman (salary men) whose favorite topics of conversation are office affairs and professional baseball. We knew there was a tremendous market there." Last year K.K. presented the market with How to Enjoy Baseball Ten Times More by Takenori Emoto, a former professional baseball player ("You feel tempted...