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...Should the city allow victims of pornography to sue the makers, distributors and sellers of sexually explicit material deemed dehumanizing to women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Results from 1985 City Election | 11/12/1985 | See Source »

Cable executives insist that their series are different from network fare, in many cases more daring in language and subject matter. Usually that simply means a gratuitous glimpse of skin here, an expletive undeleted there. Brothers' treatment of homosexuality, for example, is a touch more explicit than ABC or CBS might allow. Yet in most ways the show is indistinguishable from a typical Norman Lear sitcom of the mid-1970s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Networking: Cable goes in for sitcoms | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...Council report contends that while students often do speak at faculty meetings, they do not have the explicit right...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Council to Seek More Say At Core, Faculty Meetings | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

Under the terms of the compromise with the PMRC, which includes several Congressional wives, one-half of the record industry's 44 companies agreed to either place a parental advisory warning label on records with lyrics describing "explicit sex, violence, or substance abuse" or to print the lyrics on the album jacket...

Author: By Teresa L. Johnson, | Title: Zappa Defends Obscene Lyrics | 11/6/1985 | See Source »

Primarily, Question 3 amounts to a massive violation of the First Amendment. It would lead to an immeasurable wave of censorship. Moreover, as egregious as pornography often is, it cannot be defined, and therefore cannot be legislated against. The referendum defines pornography as the "graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and/or words." But we cannot condone the implications of that definition, particularly of the word "subordination." While the bill would allow for prosecution of pornographers who kidnap, rape and film women--and this is clearly a good motivation--it would also, presumably, subject to legal action museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No To Question 3 | 11/4/1985 | See Source »

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