Word: erotica
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...Other kinds of restraint may be possible. Says University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin E. Wolfgang: "There ought to be a way to limit pornography to those who want it." Still, Wolfgang, a member of the obscenity and pornography commission, opposes all obscenity laws, including those limiting public display of erotica. Others think such laws are reasonable. Father Morton Hill, a New York City Jesuit and veteran porn fighter, wants newsstands and drugstores to stop carrying porn. "There should be better control over what children can see or hear, and we should keep porn out of public view," he says. Adds...
...obscenity to material judged to be "utterly without redeeming social value." The "utterly" standard opened the floodgates of porn as an army of literary critics, psychologists, First Amendment libertarians and even clergymen testified at obscenity trials that they could detect a trace of social value in almost any erotica...
...aesthetics, of color, objects, volume and light. Most of the time when I was making my last movie, I was acting like a painter." Vadim, 47, who now shares his Paris menage with Lover Catherine Schneider and their one-year-old son, works primarily at night, putting his amateur erotica onto canvas. With his new movie, La Jeune Fille Assassinée, scheduled for release in the U.S. in June, and his autobiography ready for publication in France, Vadim hopes to have time to start working by sunlight. "I like to paint, but at the moment I am not satisfied...
...Erotica in Charleston...
...have been shaped by men. So feminist art isn't characterized by a clear-cut stylistic independence. New York Magazine recently published an article about some New York women who claim to create feminist art. They express their liberation from the male-dominated world of art by depicting female erotica. Art which expresses a women's sexual liberation must be feminist, because sexual liberation is a big part of what Feminism is all about. But a woman doesn't have to paint self-portraits, kitchen sinks, or female genitalia to be a feminist artist...