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...their houses to heighten their awareness of the need to practice safer sex. There is no reason, other than peace of mind and routine birth control, why heterosexuals need condoms. Nor is there any reason we need condom machines installed all over campus. Unless, that is, a cheap, prurient thrill is all we're after...
Since then, the court has refined its definition of actionable obscenity. To be declared obscene, a work must "appeal to prurient interest," be "patently offensive" and have no "serious artistic, literary, political or scientific value when taken as a whole." If only through the vague wording of that definition, the Justices have helped slow government involvement in the porn-busting business, which hardly means the case is closed. As Editorialist Phil Kerby once quipped, "Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature. Sex is a weak second." Some Fundamentalists have focused their sects' drive on getting Playboy and Penthouse removed...
...rate the ad is, no doubt, sexist. We're not supposed to like the ad or buy the tequila because of the woman's strong character or interesting personality, but because she arouses the prurient interests that lurk beneath nearly every male's soul. To run this ad is arguably worse than allowing Playboy to advertise, for the Crimson is not just indirectly promoting sexism, it's activley displaying it for anyone willing to pay twenty cents. Therefore, we would like to make a simple suggestion. Stop running the ad. It's not only an act of hypocrisy...
...some reason, purely prurient I'm sure, the teen flick genre has been outrageously successful, not because the movies are so bad, but because their essential badness in itself serves as a powerful but unwitting critique of middle-class mores. The movies' phallocentricity allows them to literally epater la bourgeoisie. And that, as avant garde flick fans know, is radical and bitchin...
...that matter America's predominantly male judiciary--supposed to know what is "sexually explicit" and what is not? If "sexually explicit" is a legal term, fine. But even Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was at a loss for defining prurient material. "I know it when I see it," he said in a famous ruling...