Word: explicitness
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...often the message there is sugarcoated. "They talk about 'making your baby better' or 'having a better birth outcome' instead of talking about the fact that this is really a test about selective termination," says medical anthropologist Nancy Press of Oregon Health Sciences University. The failure to make explicit that message--and the decision it forces--says Press, "is simply, clearly, morally wrong...
Officials claimed the documents contained "explicit sexual content" which made them "inap-propriate" for an academic setting. In response, Manning filed a federal lawsuit last week claiming that her First Amendment rights to academic freedom and uncensored speech had been violated...
There is little question that the explicit details of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair are lewd. But is it realistic to believe that avoiding conversation of the subject altogether will in some way "protect" academic integrity...
...obvious that Manning's goal is not to encourage promiscuity or the circulation of"sexually explicit material"--after all, these are government documents, not Playboy magazine...
...puritanical nature of public schools is well-known. Many districts still ban books like The Awakening and Sophie's Choice because they are considered, like the Starr report and the Clinton tapes, "sexually explicit." Never mind that both books are fascinating character studies and substantial works of literature; if sex is involved, it isn't "appropriate." The same goes for the Clinton-Lewinsky affair: of interest to a government class is whether the president's dishonesty merits his removal from office. It's more about adultery, and party lines and huge egos, than...