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...heavy reading load won't surprise most English concentrators, and thought some of the more sexy standards have slipped in--Austen, Pope and Wollstonecraft--the rest is a spicy hodge-podge of theory, romance and out-and-out smut. Students can curl up with Onania one night and the next, with Pamela, a novel "suffused with palpitating breasts," according to Festa...
There are two fields in which I'm anxious to see technology improve: medicine and hard-core pornography. And since I'm not sick yet, I'm pretty focused on the porn thing. Luckily I am not alone in my stunted vision of utopia. The desire for newer, better smut has long been a major impetus behind technological progress: VCRS, DVDS, Web development and I believe X-ray glasses were all spurred by prurient desires...
...John McCain talking. But then on a question about public funding for artists like photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, whose erotic scenes of mostly gay men incensed North Carolina's Senator Jesse Helms, McCain didn't dodge the bullet: "Some people may call it artistic license," he said. "I call it smut and filth." To a young girl asking about lowering the capital-gains tax so that she could pay for graduate school, McCain said relief should go to the working families first...
...combat the perception that McCain is too liberal, his campaign has been running a TV ad in South Carolina in which Representative Lindsey Graham (the G.O.P.'s impeachment star) characterizes him as pro-life, against Internet smut and "conservative." And yet to win, McCain needs to reel in a new kind of South Carolina Republican, the kind who lives along the seacoast and trends more libertarian than conservative. Are there enough of them? Probably not. But McCain will give it his best shot, working to take his campaign to the next level, trying to appear more presidential--to stop...
...online content--services that can be downloaded, including music and games--in the U.S. and Western Europe, according to a May 1999 study by research firm Datamonitor. But taking sanitized sex to the masses--and particularly to women--has given purveyors of erotica an entirely new audience. "Taking the smut out of sex is a clever thing to do," says Michael Poyner, retailing expert with London consultants Credo Group...